From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 19:31:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE911065670 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:31:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from liontaur@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC208FC20 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:31:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from liontaur@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so1225497bwz.43 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:31:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=WMqQr+x0lJE/r1B9OPiUFonu/DtMfisk9w5lFfy8Tdg=; b=ZbmuokmU5hojMy2vTOV/EvKvqVXm/1lAcsnOX6/PanPkVdgFgB1tBcveUI9r0PTWKd IgtR/806ki7owN6jyeaSIxEEiIzEAzZxuBxhkNkV73RvB9vypqaKzPyhevkx9tXC9SKf J6KWSr+jaS8cxsKUigcbgVRv0iW5wZ/wPomhw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=MDMQOfetfgJQhzvfrs2mEY/znVxXFUElJ0s0fj5B6Rh/AdMiMigSrI931Fok/tEwLT fgE2A1vzidU89MFYPah6/DJ7SQWBWXjZp+Xu+ZRM3s0PZw9xZYEbI6W+zIShQMqxrBZ/ LETcNe4MZv/0+sj2LNCHdgY6dKc4k6EajZJ5A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.213.19 with SMTP id p19mr1518908muq.9.1240601477268; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:31:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090424104439.2e8f13f1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090423202651.83efa8c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090424104439.2e8f13f1.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:31:17 -0700 Message-ID: From: Liontaur To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: mail server/webmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:31:19 -0000 On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur wrote: > > fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that. > > I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is > that you can use it for more than just one POP account. > In this case that's not really needed, yet. But room for expansion in the future is always nice too. > > > > The Outlook Express deal is not for me, that's for another person who > needs > > access to this email account and they happen to be very computer > illiterate > > and being as they're used to OE, i'm not going to bother trying to teach > > them something new. As for me, I plan on just using webmail to access > this > > email account. > > Then I'd suggest to install Mozilla Thunderbird and give it the > "Outlook Express" icon. They won't notice any difference. But > recipients of mails will - no double HTML garbage. :-) > > Webmail is not that bad (because important stuff is done in the > background - "the backend"), but I prefer a real mail program. > That's easy when you're at home or at work where you can > access these resources, but webmail is very handy when you're > at another place and still want to to your email stuff. Your > idea of combining both (read: IMAP) is quite good. > > Well, i'm not exactly taken with the idea of changing out the mail client just for the sake of it. We don't display or send emails in html anyways since that's not such a good idea with OE. As for webmail... I never even thought about just using an email client on my laptop to access the server but that strikes me as a better idea too. No matter what I use i'd be tunneling it over SSH anyways so a mail client would probably have more functionality or at least i'd be more familiar with the functionality as opposed to webmail.