[Linux-Anyway] Re: Anyone using qpopper?
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:21:38 -0800 (PST)
Horror,
> A small excerpt from the Mail-Administrator-HOWTO at tldp.org:
> 5.3 qmail
> The qmail program is a sendmail-compatible MTA designed
> specifically for high security. The author has a standing
> reward of $500 for publication of the first verifiable security
> hole; this reward has gone unclaimed since March 1997.
> The qmail home page is at http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html.
Hmm. My isp touts qmail as the best he's ever come across. At
least, if I can't figure something out & no one on the list knows
the answer, he probabaly would.
> 5.4 exim
> The exim program is similar to smail3, but with more features.
> It advertises particular strengths in spam-blocking and support
> of several virtual hosts (virtual DNS domains) on the same
> host.
If I remember correctly, exim requres payment for any
commercial use. I run a business as well as putz round with
personal mail. I'll have to look into this more deeply.
> The exim home page is at http://www.exim.org/.
> I tried it on my own computer, it looks like a nice merge
> between smail configuration system and qmail security, moreover
> it has the advantage of being GPL.
Again, any mailer I use will have to be free for some
commercial use. It's not like I do enough business via e-mail
that they'd really make any money if done piece-meal, but as I
don't make any money just now in my business, I really can't
afford to pay for my software -- particularly when I don't ~do~
that much business.
> A section explaining how to replace your current MTA by exim
> will be added soon.
That sounds nice.
> </quote>
> Well, I guess especially this unclaimed hacking reward must
> appeal to you now (as it appeals to me), however I find the GPL
> of exim even more sexy (hell, saying this probably proves
> beyond doubt that I've developped into a geek).
No one would ever have guessed;-).
> As you can see from my mail headers I'm using Sylpheed, which
> is the best graphical mail software I've seen so far - small,
> fast and spartan in a queer way, because any lack of features
> usual in other mailers feels like a feature rather than a
> restriction.
If I wanted to use a gui mailer, I'd likely opt for sylpheed.
But I really like what the guys at UW are doing with pine.
> Recently, I fried my main linux machine's power supply (After
> the cheap built-in fan failed I've been running it thanks to
> the additional case fan I'd built in, until that failed too),
> and I had to read my mail with Mozilla running on my brother's
> Windows machine. Horrible - I couldn't wait to get my Sylpheed
> back.
I think it's really funny how the Linux version of Mozilla runs
a damn site better than the Windows version. I'd tried it a
while back, & have yet to speak with any Windows user who has
tried it & liked it. It's really nice that Mozilla's really good
to Linux users.
> Well, I've tested mutt a couple of times and I adore it. This,
> along with the possibility of using advanced spam-filtering
> tools like Spam Assasin will see me switching to standard UNIX
> mail handling when I find the energy to set it up.
Dunno. I'm still having fun with procmail;-).
--
Computer science:
1. A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the
precision of the former and the success of the latter.
2. The protracted value analysis of algorithms.
3. The costly enumeration of the obvious.
4. The boring art of coping with a large number of
trivialities.
5. Tautology harnessed in the service of Man at the speed of
light.
6. The Post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
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