Mail Setups

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Make a nice survey and you will know :)

Right now I use gmail as my primary account. It is very convenient, because I 
can access it from work and from home. From work on www (though could be also 
by pop3 and smtp). From home i use practically only pop3 and google smtp 
which runs on a higher port ). Rogers does not allow access to external smtp 
on port 25). Google authentication has some sort of security features i did 
not bother much to remember about.

I use from home KMail right now, but I used thunderbird as well. Pine in the 
past for long (now I see no good reason to use text based email clients in 
most cases).

Mailing lists? Any reasonably good client can do well with them, just a matter 
of personal configuration.

Problem with google is that they may (and likely they do) monitoring of your 
mail and one can not know what they are doing with all that information. 
However, do we know what sort of homeland or foreign secred service people 
are installed at let say Sympatico or Rogers? I have no doubt that there are 
such people there. 

If someone is paranoic or sends mails with possibly sensitive content to/from 
a company  he/she is employed at - than mails should be encrypted and go 
through company smtp server. 

zb.

On Friday 09 March 2007 17:37, 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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