[geeks] personal mail handling

[Ryn]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] personal mail handling


> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:17, Big Endian wrote:
> > I know many of you use IMAP for email access.  I'm considering moving 
> > to a more centralized system here and I'm wondering why IMAP works 
> > for you and how you have your system setup otherwise.  Do you have 
> > multiple workstations and (a) central server(s) for mail/files/etc or 
> > do you have a central workstation that you keep everything on or 
> > something in between?  I'm starting to feel vulnerable w/ keeping 
> > everything on the powerbook.  I've been hacking OS X a lot and I've 
> > killed it more than once.  How do you guys do your workstations?
> 
> I run qmail, courier IMAP, and procmail on my mailserver, and just use
> my client to view the mail from there.  I screw up my workstation
> completely every couple of months (if I'm lucky, otherwise it's every
> other weekend), so I don't want the mail at risk there.  qmail and
> courier IMAP are very reliable and predictable, plus easy to set up. 
> Procmail is not even remotely reliable, predictable, or easy to set up. 

Depends who you ask ;) I find procmail recipes pretty straight forward 
and the binaries are extremely reliable, but there is a steep learning curve. 
I spent countless nights reading up on procmail and how to use it. I no 
longer get spam thanks to procmail:

http://www.spambouncer.org/

> However, once you've got that it installed, configured, and generally
> working, it's quite nice.  Though if I could find another alternative,
> I'd be all over it.  There are several nice web IMAP frontends, which
> lets you get access remotely, if you're out of town or somesuch.  I find
> that to be easier than connecting via ssh, and using mutt, elm, pine, or
> the like.  I've never been able to get used to any text-mode mailers,
> except for BSD mailx, which doesn't work when I get as much mail as
> being on geeks entails.  :-)
> Greg
> 
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