Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:17:33 -0400:
> Well, that was also an enlightening e-mail. I just disabled and deleted > all cookies in Firefox, and now I'm going to do as Richard described and > setup my own e-mail account. Any good ideas/howto's about how to setup a > mail server? FWIW, I use konqueror as my default browser and have it set to accept session cookies by default -- but those are deleted when konqueror exits so don't stay around long. Konqueror has a default cookie option, but allows different policies for individual sites. My default (other than for session cookies) is don't allow, but I do have a few sites I do allow them on -- my bank's site, for example, for online banking, and LWN.org (Linux Weekly News) so I can post article followups using my account there. Konqueror has similar settings for Java (which I don't have any version of merged as most are slaveryware, and I've not needed it enough to bother with the freedomware versions), and javascript, which again I keep off by default, but allow for a very few specific sites, including my bank. It also has a plugin (part of konq-plugins in kdeaddons I'm guessing) that allows me to one-shot quick-switch both the cookie and the scripting settings and reload a page if it doesn't work without it. That's fairly often required for scripting, as many sites require it nowdays. However, even with scripting enabled, konqueror has finer security settings on what it is allowed to do (like popups yes/no/ask, etc), and those too have a general default with per-site exceptions available where needed. I'm guessing Firefox (which I don't have merged) has similar per-site options, altho it's possible you need an extension for full control. ... As for mail servers, I don't know enough on the subject to be worth posting on, so I won't. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
