[CS-FSLUG] Alpine for email

[Ed Hurst]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, l4c at thelinuxlink.net wrote:

> Not necessarily.  My work lappy and one of my home machines are
> snappier than that, however, what I use most for my email is my
> netbook, an acer aspire one, which is 1.6ghz. Your system should work
> great with alpine. Your only problem may be your bandwidth
> limitations. Even at 200K you should be able to jump through your
> emails rather quickly I would imagine.

I know it sure is a lot of fun doing it the old way. I managed to get
Fetchmail and Postfix running satisfactorily on my home DSL. Tim fixed
it so I can bypass AT&T port blocking by using 26 for SMTP on our
server. Fetchmail is getting pretty cranky these days, but I figured it
out. I use the latest Alpine for the actual mail client.

I've always loved doing it his way, and my next trick is learning to
incorporate spam filtering. I'm not getting much of that right now.

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Ed Hurst
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