Speaking defensively ;) In lurking in the background, I have
the distinct impression that as a home user running as 'root'
could be a problem were I connected to the outside world.
What I have reading here in these e-mails re-inforced the idea
that when I connected to the Internet I was opening a lot
of ways that my computer could be compromised (hacked, wormed, virused
-- new Coinage). Over the years I had pulled in a lot of programs
and other goodies. It was time to do it *RIGHT* !
I used 'fetchmail' to pull in mail from my ISP. Fetchmail piped the
e-mails to 'procmail'. If you operate as strictly as 'root',
these 2 programs are VERY easy to configure and trouble-shoot.
"/dev/null" got a lot of mail.
Mutt, once you have it tuned is really a great program. It does use POP
to pull in mail and it looks like it has hooks that will allow me
to possibly weed-out incoming mail. I'll soon know.
Sendmail. It would seem that every Linux distro I know of uses it or
or supplies it. With the help I'm getting from everyoneI will get it
working. ( my wife refers to it as being anally oriented.) I will
will let everyone know how this is coming.
I have a lot responses with configurations to try.
TNX :>
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