On 16 May 2016, at 21:40, Zak McClellan wrote:
Message: 6
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 09:30:58 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email protected]>
To: "MailMate Users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MlMt] installing on 2nd computer
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Let me add one caveat:
The two installations should not butt up against each other or have
conflicts. You can install any number of different IMAP clients on
any
number of computers with no problem, since the canonical home for
your
email is in the cloud. That's how IMAP works and why it was
developed.
I've found that it's a bad idea to have multiple machines running
simultaneously with rules that sort and categorize incoming messages.
What I do is have all of the rules on one machine; ditto SpamSieve.
For
me, what works best is SpamSieve on my always-on desktop, but sorting
rules on my laptop. Why the split? Spam I never want to see, so I
always want to get rid of it quickly. But important mail I want to
see
immediately on my phone, so when I'm not using my laptop I'll be
alerted
to inbound mail. (I also use server-side rules for less-important
mailboxes that I'd never want to look at on the phone, but that's a
separate story.)
Ok I'll bite. Time for a separate story.
What do you use for your server side rules, Fastmail, home server,
Gmail?
I use Hover for mail. There are limited server side options for rules
and forwarding. I have aspired to limiting "important" email to my
phone (iOS) for a long time. Since iOS does not allow for separate
tones for email senders (just a VIP list), I use a Gmail forwarding
and AltaMail notifications.
I run two mail servers of my own (long story). One one (which runs
NetBSD and Dovecot), I use procmail; on the other (MacOS Server with the
built-in Dovecot), I use Sieve. Neither is entirely satisfactory; both
can be persuaded to do what I want.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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