Mail Setups

jay-ttDcVxANFaNM656bX5wj8A at public.gmane.org jay-ttDcVxANFaNM656bX5wj8A at public.gmane.org
Sat Mar 10 05:10:34 UTC 2007


> Jason Carson wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> How do you deal with ISP down-time then?  I used to do something similar
> some years ago.  I gave up because every so often my ISP would have
> down-time.  I would be more comfortable with a hosting service as the
> ISP because they are there to support your server/shared server.  Home
> ISPs have none such customer service aspirations, unfortunately.

My internet access doesn't go down much and I can live with the amount of
down time I do get... a few times a year and it usually is only down for a
small period of time.

Jason

> Brandon
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