Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 03:43:59 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: am i back up....??? Message-ID: <20110403034359.7ac8d116.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110403013059.GB18031@thought.org> References: <20110402201441.GA2996@thought.org> <AANLkTinrWgDx6Gm4V6t%2BCjkr%2BDx6zbamh-ASZZT%2BHDON@mail.gmail.com> <20110402234643.GD4792@thought.org> <7C870049-A789-4AD0-97FF-9BBC581CCBD0@d3photography.com> <20110403013059.GB18031@thought.org>
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:30:59 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:29:23PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > Get a Gmail account. > > > i tried about a year ago: gdk98188; now i cannot get in. > something is hosed ... In worst case, use a "normal" mail account - either provided by your own server or by someone you trust, so google is out of scope. :-) Using POP/SMTP/IMAP always gives you the required ability to use the interface of choice, e. g. a standalone MUA that is accessible, and no requirement to do such stuff via the web, using the inconvenience and shortcomings of a web browser. I can only speak for myself regarding this suggestion, and I may also admit that I'm not fully happy with it. I would like to run my own mail server, but corrently I'm using the one for POP of the provider of my domain. I avoid SMTP as sending mail from my system (that runs a MTA) is considered NORMAL by me. Sadly, most others who suffer from spam do not think so, they reject messages coming from behind a dynamic IP, so I use my ISP's relay as smarthost for sending messages. This way, I can still use ANY mail client program I want - I get the messages using fetchmail and can then process them with any program, even "in parallel". For sending, I can even | mail -s bla bob@foo.bar from the command line. It may not be optimal for all imaginable scenarios (e. g. reading mail from a different system, sending from a different location), but as I do not require them, it's no big deal. Gary, whenever you have the chance to run you own mail system - DO IT. You have enough knowledge to keep this kind of stuff running, and it gives you more flexibility than anything else. For example, you could install an IMAP interface for mail stored on the server, so you can access it by any IMAP capable client you want, and you could even install a web mail client (e. g. roundcube) to bind to that IMAP inter- face. In my opinion, this is way better than the POP/no-SMTP thing I'm currently doing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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