From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 18:48:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EF337B719 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:48:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden ([192.168.0.2]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA00360; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:48:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <01b001c0b4d6$070bf8c0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Jim Durham" , "Mark Sergeant" Cc: , , References: Subject: Re: mail clients Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:47:48 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've used essentially the same setup in a few situations too. There does appear to be a body of opinion that IMAP-UW has security holes, however I get the impression that the problem only affects users who don't have a regular shell account. This may not be a problem to everyone. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Durham" To: "Mark Sergeant" Cc: ; ; Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 11:39 AM Subject: Re: mail clients > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Mark Sergeant wrote: > > > The solution that I use which suits me quite well is I have an imap server > > running on my server & use webmail to access that. (squirrelmail > > http://www.squirrelmail.org) I then also use the mail client pronto and pop > > the messages off the server onto my laptop, (I use the option of not > > deleting the mail from the server.) > > > > > go@dubkat.com types: > > >> Hi, I'm just wondering if someone knows a good way to get mail in my > > >> situation. > > >> I want to be able to use a GUI client (Outlook, KMail, Evolution), > > >> but I > > >> also want to be able to access my mail when I'm somewhere else, like > > >> work. I've currently got a webmail daemon on my server, but I just > > I have a similar situation. I often use pine, but, if I want a GUI, > I use Netscape, which has filters. To access my home netscape client > fromm work or work from home, I use X forwarding in SSH and just start > up Netscape on the other end. You can use any X window mail client, of > course. > > Pine has a lot to recommend it, though. You don't have to suffer with > those ads! (and..it's fast!). > > -Jim Durham > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message