Alan McConnell wrote:
OK, a little survey here. How many of you use mutt, or
elm, or Evolution(?), and do your E-mail right from your
home computer? I do, and since my ISP -- not PatriotNet,
incidentally -- gives me a dynamic IP
address I have to use a "smart host"/'relay host' for
my E-mail to get anywhere. It has been my experience
that setting this up is very difficult, requiring a good knowledge
of what one's ISP requires, and what the proprietor of
one's relay host requires. My Postfix setting up took
quite a bit of work, and I bothered lots of people on the
Postfix E-list before I got it right.
Alpine on the server, SeaMonkey on the desktop. And I run my own mail
server and list server (sympa) on a server sitting in a datacenter
(legacy of once having owned a small hosting company). Yup, not easy.
It's a little easier for my father-in-law - he uses Comcast's mail
servers, but reads on home computer. Took a bit of work transitioning
from Verizon's mailserver - what with different ISPs blocking different
SMTP ports these days.
(apt still rules). I've watched one of my sons - the English major
- ditch Windows for Arch Linux on his ancient Compaq laptop, learn
the ins and outs of finding/installing drivers for various things,
and teach himself some C and Python along the way - so you never
know.
Great! I congratulate him; and you!
Thanks!
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
P.S. Compare my .sig of today, just below<g>.
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Alan McConnell :http://patriot.net/users/alan
Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
Isn't that "theoretically" = "not if I can help it?" :-)
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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