Mail Setups

[Myles Braithwaite]

I use Thunderbird connected to IMAP on my Email Server. I use both a
local and remote SMTP because of simpatico. But I am thinking of
converting to Mutt with OfflineIMAP.

Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> I'm just wondering what people's mail setups are like.  Do you just
> POP3 all your email with fetchmail and use a console client?  Do you
> just use webmail like Gmail or Hotmail?  Do you have email on a
> hosting service, and use IMAP?  Console/GUI email app?  Does your
> client implement SMTP or do you use a local server?  If so, is it
> fully featured like postfix or basic like ssmtp?
>
> I don't want to start some flame war (console vs. gui or mbox vs
> whatever), I'm just wondering how people on TLUG deal with email. 
> Just something about what you use and why you use it.
>
> Personally, I've used things from Apple's Mail.app to Thunderbird to
> Mutt to Pine to Outlook to Outlook Express over the years.  Right now
> I'm using Thunderbird on OS X, but I was using Mutt previously for a
> while.
>
> An additional question would be how do you deal with Mailing Lists?  I
> know that some people setup specific email addresses for mailing
> lists.  I've even heard of people using a gmail account only for
> mailing lists because they feel it handles them the best (compared to
> other webmail clients I guess).
>
> Brandon
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