preferred email system

[Gray, David W]

Everything is behind a firewall - the only access is via SSH, or SHTTP. (Oh,
and the
SSH port is only open to certain IP addresses, like my work, and PDA/Cell
connection.)
My ISP (RoadRunner) is kind of wierd regarding filtering. The only ports
that I *know*
they filter is the 6000-6031 range, inbound (no X servers - what, did
somebody tell
them they were for porn? Setting the server # to 32 at startup worked fine,
though.)

The mail pickup is via fetchmail. In the old days, I ran elm, and used POP3
for 
outside connections, but I kept having difficulties with keeping the
different
mail systems sync'd. Now, its *one* method of access, one set of folders.
Period.
And it works pretty well for me, notwithstanding the little gotchas running
mutt. (And that many years with elm is why I run mutt to begin with, as
opposed 
to an all graphical client.)


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sica [mailto:lomion at mac.com]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:06 PM
To: Paul Robinson
Cc: Gray, David W; 'freebsd-chat at freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: preferred email system



On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Paul Robinson wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:29:35AM -0400, Gray, David W wrote:
>
>> I use mutt in a similar setup. It's handling of IMAP is, well, 
>> painful. It
>
> Don't use the IMAP. Configure an MTA and where you can have mail 
> delivered
> direct. Where it needs to come off a remote mail server, grab a copy of
> fetchmail and make it do it's voodoo. Having an MTA on your local 
> machine
> for just you is not just luxury - it's why you have Unix. :-)
>

You run into one possible problem here.  What if your ISP filters the 
port incoming?  Then you cannot access it remotely.  Plus then you have 
to make sure you keep on top of any possible holes/bugs/spammers.   I 
don't like running services out of my house unless I need to, mostly 
because I don't have the time.

--Larry