Setting up a Maildrop on Ubuntu or Debian.

Post #310,168 by Another Scott 6/26/09 10:37:22 AM Reply	Setting up a Maildrop on Ubuntu or Debian. http://www.whatsnot.in/wp/?p=139 It looks like something worth considering as I have 3 PCs at home that I read mail from... (via LinuxToday) Cheers, Scott.
Post #310,173 by folkert 6/26/09 12:58:59 PM Reply	To be honest... use IMAP anyway. Its light enough and you can configure it to only get headers unless you want full offline capacity. I use IMAP for everything and no longer use a local machine for aggregation and quick access. Only time it gets a little hairy is the sheer volumes of e-mail I have for Work... many multiple folders with 80K plus messages in them. Using Google Hosted e-mail and only using IMAPS with them. Other wise, I use Courier IMAP for my personal stuff. I never have to worry about what or where, I can just use an IMAP capable mail browser and voila... I have mail. From Mutt to Balsa, to Evolution, to Mail.app. IMAP is the chosen way to manage mail effectively and easily. In fact the only gripe I have is contacts, i wish i could get evolution to store contacts in a folder as well as locally.
Post #310,175 by boxley 6/26/09 1:11:27 PM Reply	what he said
Post #310,178 by Another Scott 6/26/09 1:49:38 PM Reply	Thanks. I've never used IMAP much, other than Gmail. My ISP's web interface is pretty limited, and I have always liked the idea of getting mail off his server every day if possible. I'll check around some more. Thanks to you both. Cheers, Scott.
Post #310,188 by folkert 6/26/09 4:39:31 PM Reply	Here is an idea... Have Google mail grab it off his server. Google's stuff can go and get everything and re-process it... just like its incoming if you want. That way its ALL available in Google Mail.
Post #310,199 by Another Scott 6/26/09 9:19:05 PM Reply	Tempting, but... It's nice having an e-mail account with a tiny ISP that isn't mining my e-mails for targeted ads. I mainly use Gmail for mailing lists. If I direct everything to Gmail anyway, there's little sense in me continuing to pay $19 a month to keep my account with my small ISP (since I don't use his dial-up service any more). I'll do some more reading and cogitating.... Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #310,209 by folkert 6/27/09 2:41:02 PM Reply	Is it REALLY that important... to have ultimate privacy? Remember, unless e-mail messages are encrypted with GPG/PGP/WTFever its plain text and readable. Considering the petabytes of e-mail Google has to "index" is YOURS that important? These cries of privacy invasion... ok, tell me the last time you had a secure conversation on the internet via forums or the like? How much of your mail is spam? How much of you e-mail is truly highly private? Are you THAT important? Come on, you use a cell phone and don;t complain that you can be triangulated at any time, or eavesdropped on or the fact that all of your internet traffic is probably being scanned in one way or another for various purposes or what about the ISP you are using doing traffic shaping because you use too much of a specific kind of traffic... There are FAR FAR FAR worse invasion of privacy things that you have just accepted and let happen without care (maybe not without care, but what you don't know CAN and DOES hurt you)... But I guess bike-shedding is your style on this type of thing. Give me a break.
Post #310,211 by Another Scott 6/27/09 3:18:53 PM Reply	Hit a nerve, did I? You may have me confused with someone else. :-) You make good points, and I'm aware of those things. I'm not a privacy nut - I don't worry about cookies, for example (though I do use SBS&D to clean out things occasionally on my Winders machines). I get around 300 pieces of e-mail a day, about 99% of it is spam. (I know you get a lot more.) My ISP doesn't filter anything, AFAIK. I just need to do some more thinking before I do anything irreversible, like give up an e-mail address that I've had for about 17 years. Cheers, Scott. (Heh. He said "bike-shedding". ;-)
Post #310,227 by boxley 6/27/09 7:06:45 PM Reply	my email at netscape is the same way Ive had it forever, people can still find me that way all mail is shared between sytems is clear text unless you encrypt it before you send it. if you want to aggregate it any imap client is fine
Post #310,179 by boxley 6/26/09 2:16:01 PM Reply	you dont want to use a viral contact list like plaxo?
Post #310,190 by folkert 6/26/09 4:45:04 PM Reply	Feh! Plaxo-what? I barely want to use Linked-In anymore. I swear, Linked-In is a recruiter's paradise. Regularly I've gotten serious offers, some for far off lands, that I actually entertained for a bit until I realized, I do not want to be in a Foreign Land in these days. Money offer was GREAT ($175K/year plus full living/moving/entertainment expenses for me and the family), but being alive to spend it is kind of important.
Post #310,201 by static 6/27/09 9:56:17 AM Reply	I'll second the IMAP angle. I have my own server. Have had for many years, in fact. One of the early things I did with it was setup an IMAP server. Best thing I ever did with my email. (And the second best thing I did was setup a webmail service.) Desktops have come and gone, been upgraded, re-installed, email clients changed several times. Never lost any email. And the Maildir format on the server is extremely easy and robust to move to a new server, as has been done a few times, too. Wade. "Ah -- I take it the doorbell doesn't work?"
Post #310,213 by pwhysall 6/27/09 3:41:49 PM Reply	Thirded. Postfix + Courier + Maildrop + SpamAssassin + Roundcube ...makes for a dandy mail solution, at home and away.

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