-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 sorry about the length here... gotten carried away :) skim to near the bottom or GnuPG info
There have been some great points brought up recently regarding threading, broken mail clients and even those using windows. >From memory last time I used Outlook it did support threading, those of you on Outlook - USE IT! You'll save yourself much time and angst. I don't read every message, which is why appropriate subject lines are a must! If the subject doesn't interest me I ignore it mostly :) If you filter into a seperate folder, display with threads, it means even if you miss a few days, you can catch up on what interests you quickly and ignore the other stuff. For the last couple of years I've been using Evolution, with imap, server side spam and procmail filtering - now I'm using Thunderbird, with mostly client side spam filtering (much easier to fix false positives IMO) and spamassassin on the server (Its a shared server, high threshold but needed for other users) and procmail to filter into imap folders. I can access my email from Thunderbird on windows or linux and know it won't break the other end, and I can access via webmail too when needed (the spam doesn't get junked until I get home however) If you can, filter server side. For many people with ISP accounts that is simply not an option, however if you are running linux why not use fetchmail, you could send it to local folders, to a local imap server, the possibilities are endless. Procmail filtering isn't that hard to get to grips with, there are a few nice examples with the accompanying documentation (/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples in debian) that show simple and complex solutions. For the simplest, I posted my very simple one yesterday, and a few days ago someone else posted theirs. figure out what type of mailbox storage your server uses and test. I created a seperate account to test things until I knew how to safely support my particular imap server. As some have probably noticed, recently I've begun to use GnuPG to sign everything coming from my personal email address, this is definetly becoming a must with the number of bounce replies from spams that are forging my addresss - people who I contact can know when its me. FWIW, I'm using the enigmail plugin to thunderbird and managing keys via "PGP Preferences" in Gnome 2.6. I would like to get squirrelmail setup properly so I can sign stuff from my work address consistently with the same key, theres no point me signing only when I'm at home, I need to sign from work and on the road as well. I don't think its too hard, its just I haven't been bothered yet. As for newbies to GnuPG.... For those interested in beginning to use it, if you're using Thunderbird you've got it easy. Simply install the enigmail plugin, (apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail in debian) load up thunderbird, and go to enigmail preferences and click on "generate key". Unlike paswordless ssh keys, create a decent password for your gpg key, use something unique, even if it is just adding the letters gpg to the end of a password you already use. Then you can export your private and public keys with "gpg -a - --export-secret-keys" and "gpg -a --export", you'll then need to import the private key onto any other machines you want to sign from, and make a safe backup copy that you know nobody can get their hands on in case you ever format and need to grab the key back. CD, Floppy, something safer than just a file on your machine. Sascha PS. Never start a new topic to the list just by replying to another post, it'll break threading as your mail client will still link it to the previous post. PPS. Some can ignore this rule from their webmail clients :P -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAtB36L43IewNc8hIRAlB/AJ4jKY1Znib+fiXwiRguiCiMQZHs6gCeOhtw BiHhHYJ0yHnrQ8mLo2dMl28= =Woze -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
