Mail Setups

[Jason Carson]

Greetings,

I use qmail on my gentoo server I run out of my house. This is my primary
email server. To access it I use Squirrelmail.

Jason Carson

> 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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