On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 14:32, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 09:31 AM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >And yes i deleted all my email and NO i didnt want to look up the > >subject on the archives...deal with it, :) > > I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the > reason for that? > > ------------- > FemmeFatale
Why setup a mail server at home? Here's several reasons: * You can stop bugs from getting to your Windows machines by setting up your own mail server on a linux box - using whatever you like - either SENDMAIL or POSTFIX - and do a much better job at catching the nasties than any M$ box could hope of. * Better connection control. You can setup your system to check for mail at specific times - and use FETCHMAIL to grab all the mail for all your users, then send what it has to send. Nice, scheduled and timely. * You can setup shared IMAP folders for all the users on your home network so that you can share documents and emails (funnies, especially) as well as do other, more productive things. * You can very quickly and easily setup a web interface for the users on your home network to get their mail - keeps them from having to rely on crap like M$ pOutlook and M$ Outlook Digress, er, Express * You can setup internal email so that you can send nasty emails to your children (or partner) without having them bounce outside then back in again. * Snatching your email as quickly as you can before it can be read by the spies and hackers out there is a better idea than letting it sit in a queue or spool where the Evil US Government can read it...so the faster you get it home, the safer (supposedly) it is... * You can setup your own spam filtering system to do so much better than any M$ product can. (And OH how simple that is) * You can suck your Hotmail down to your system without ever having to go to the Hotmail site (what a drag) and spamfilter it as well... * You're in control. You like being in control, don't you ?? * You're stabbing back at the rank and file of the internet world by having your own email server. Why not do it just for that matter? * You learn email setup and administration * You're in control. Or did I mention that already? * You're the envy of all your geek friends because you setup/maintain/administer your own home email server. Kudos! Whilst they pine away over bugs and nasties in their M$ products, you're happily chomping through your millions of daily emails with nary a problem! * You're doing more on your one teensy weensy little linux box than an entire MS Exchange server could possibly do - no matter who the administrator was! (And you're more in CONTROL. CONTROL.CONTROL) * You're cool when you have a home email server. * Osama bin Laden doesn't have his own email server, but you can! * George Bush can't even spell "email server", but you have one at home. Dig that. * No one can shut down your home email server. It's yours, and that's that. * If something goes wrong, you don't have to call tech support. You can scream at yourself instead. * NO QUOTAS when you have your own email server. Someone can send you 100mb of absolute crap and it won't kill your account status. * You can have your own home email server and pink hair at the same time. -- Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:55:01 +1100 5:55pm up 45 min, 3 users, load average: 0.65, 0.29, 0.27 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Think honk if you're a telepath.
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