On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 06:14 PM, GDB-B&W-X.3.7 wrote:
I'm curious as to how some of you multi machine users keep your mail separate or if you even try.
Filters, filters rule. Mail comes in, it's sent to the appropriate mail folder upon receipt. I have one e-mail address, I have 73 mail folders.
I'm lucky. We are our own ISP, so we get to decide what kind of mail server to use. We use IMAP, which, imo, is so superior to POP it ain't funny. It also lets me use procmail on the server side to filter my mail so that no matter which system I use, my Beige, my Powerbooks, my G4 at work, or a web browser on someone else's system, everything's filtered and kept straight, and it's all there.
IMAP is great, but ISP's don't like it because your primary mail store is the server, not your computer, meaning they have to pay for disk space. In our case we have way too many faculty members who have a computer on their desk, one at home and a laptop for travelling (or two in some cases!) They want to be able to access all their mail all the time, and when we started this there weren't any web mail clients, much less decent ones.
Modern IMAP clients can pretend to be POP clients, downloading the entire mail message for offline reading, but unlike POP, if your local machine crashes, your mail ain't gone. And we're far more scrupulous about backups with our servers than most people are with their desktops.
It's easy when you've got a $20K tape loader that let's you throw a pile of tapes in on Monday for the week...
It can be run over a secure server, so everything in encrypted coming and going. Some clients support server-side profiles, so your address books are on the server, too.
The downside it the space mail takes up on the server, but it's not really bad in the general scheme of things...our current mail server supports well over 800 users, and we're using 124G of disk space in the /home directories. Except for the admins, that's all mail. Not bad, and we're still not quota-ing our people...we've found they'd rather pony up for more disk space than have to delete stuff.
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