Re: Recent spam increase

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

On 2006-10-26 12:56:07 +0100, David Hart wrote:
I'll be the first to admit that mutt is not ideal for reading pop
accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when
setting up pop/imap servers.

AFAIK, POP is not a protocol to read mail (in the sense, as a real
mailbox, with search and editing possibilities), but just to fetch
mail.

Yes, that's true and it's one reason mutt is not ideal for the purpose.

Mutt can be configured to pull mail from pop down into a local folder
for offline use but needs a little bit extra config with perhaps
folder-hooks or macros to use with more than one account. But, I think,
this goes against the way that mutt was designed to be used and it's not
the way I use it on a daily basis.

I posted the previous method because I happen to have similar lines
commented out in my ~/.muttrc as that is what I occasionally use for
testing purposes.

For the small amount of mail I receive currently via pop I use
fetchmail dumped into the local mailspool.

But what if you use several machines, so that your local mailspool
can't be read from another machine (assume that a local IMAP server
won't solve the problem either, due to restrictions)? In this case,
fetching the mail and storing it to a remote IMAP mailbox (with the
IMAP protocol) may be the only solution...

I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I
was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly
by SMTP to the machine which has my personal mail store. Do a 'dig
tonix.org mx' (my domain) and you'll get jynn.tonix.org as the first
mx which is the box I'm sitting at right now.

When I'm away from home I ssh into my home box to get mail. If that
became a problem (because, perhaps, of firewall rules), I'd probably
setup ssh to listen on port 80 as a first choice but, imap would
definitely be an option.

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David Hart <debian@xxxxxxxxx>


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