> Hi, I was wondering if you all could tell me the pros and cons of > some Mail Packages: I was wondering about: Fetchmail: I want to use > this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me. (can it do sorting > of mail?)
I am lucky enough to have a shell account on my provider and use procmail on the ISP to set aside very large emails before fetching with fetchmail. I haven't set it up for spam filtering yet. I also use procmail on my Linux pc to split the debian-user-digest into individual articles and save them in somewhere besides the default mailbox. In short, procmail is designed for sorting mail and it works. Fetchmail works well for me also, and it can be run as a daemon from ip-up script. And and can do multiple accounts. A+ The only sorting fetchmail can do is limit by size. You can tell it to not fetch email larger than XXX bytes. > Sendmail: I just wonder which is beter sendmail or smail.... > SMail: same as above.... TIA -K -- I use smail becasue it's what Debian wanted. The only issue I have is that I want email sent from my pc to have my ISP email address as a retuern address. This is done by configuring the email client easily. I used smailconfig to configure smail, and I use elm as a email client. I added a line: >From "My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to the ~/.elm/elmheaders file. Other email client will do it some different way. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
