Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:34:32 -0400 From: "Gray, David W" <David.W.Gray@NielsenMedia.com> To: "'Larry Sica'" <lomion@mac.com>, Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: "'freebsd-chat@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: preferred email system Message-ID: <F43D9B4FC6DE934A84DE391C6A84C2E9031F35DC@nmrusdunsx10.nmrlan.net>
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Everything is behind a firewall - the only access is via SSH, or SHTTP. (Oh, and the SSH port is only open to certain IP addresses, like my work, and PDA/Cell connection.) My ISP (RoadRunner) is kind of wierd regarding filtering. The only ports that I *know* they filter is the 6000-6031 range, inbound (no X servers - what, did somebody tell them they were for porn? Setting the server # to 32 at startup worked fine, though.) The mail pickup is via fetchmail. In the old days, I ran elm, and used POP3 for outside connections, but I kept having difficulties with keeping the different mail systems sync'd. Now, its *one* method of access, one set of folders. Period. And it works pretty well for me, notwithstanding the little gotchas running mutt. (And that many years with elm is why I run mutt to begin with, as opposed to an all graphical client.) -----Original Message----- From: Larry Sica [mailto:lomion@mac.com] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:06 PM To: Paul Robinson Cc: Gray, David W; 'freebsd-chat@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: preferred email system On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:29:35AM -0400, Gray, David W wrote: > >> I use mutt in a similar setup. It's handling of IMAP is, well, >> painful. It > > Don't use the IMAP. Configure an MTA and where you can have mail > delivered > direct. Where it needs to come off a remote mail server, grab a copy of > fetchmail and make it do it's voodoo. Having an MTA on your local > machine > for just you is not just luxury - it's why you have Unix. :-) > You run into one possible problem here. What if your ISP filters the port incoming? Then you cannot access it remotely. Plus then you have to make sure you keep on top of any possible holes/bugs/spammers. I don't like running services out of my house unless I need to, mostly because I don't have the time. --Larry
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