On Sun, 27 May 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I totally disagree with your statement.
Feel free. However, it appears that you are looking at my message in the
context of your needs, and not the needs of the original poster. Personally,
I would never use one of those self-contained mail clients, but I am not the
OP, either. :-)
> I have fetchmail grabbing email from the ISP every few minutes, and I keep
> port 25 open since I can receive email directly.
However, you are not likely to be doing that with a dynamic address which is
not in the DNS, which is the case with the OP.
> Linux is a multi-user system.
However, the OP describes your classic single-user mail setup perfectly.
> But you have choices in the type of email you want to use. I'm very picky
> in the email program I use.
The OP did specify that he wants to use mutt.
> I want to be able to easily spoof my from address (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and I want to easily select my signature. Many of these
> clients you mention make it more difficult.
Which is fine, Jerry. However, I was not writing that message for *you*, I
was writing it for the OP! :-)
> Additionally, since Linux is a multi-user system, there are local email is
> still somewhat necessary ...
This is most easily solved by telling your fully self-contained mail client
to poll the local host for mail, along with other ISP mailboxes.
> But, if you use Linux essentially as a single user, those self contained
> clients do work and are easy to set up.
Which was my point. :-)
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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