On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:04:31 -0400 Andrew Malcolmson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:09:01AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Why not use Gmail (or something similar) for ML traffic? Free (as in > > beer), close to 3 GB of storage, free POP access. > > > > The real question is why Debian doesn't run a modern, user-friendly, > mailing list manager like Mailman, as does the entire rest of the open > source community. The user shouldn't be forced into kludgy solutions > because Debian alone continues to use a manager from ancient days. You omitted the context of my post. David had written: > > (Yes, if I wanted to leave my computer on 24/7 and pay for a fixed IP, I > > could > > dispense with the provider's email server, smarthosting and the like and > > let > > my exim4 do the work (which it does quite well). Then again, the /var > > partition will fill up producing the same results. So ... let's have fun > > but > > consider onr another and keep things reasonable.) implying that a technical solution was impractical or expensive, to which I responded that it was not necessarily so. > If I have to use webmail for mailing list traffic, I loose the power and > convience of reading all my mail on my IMAP server in mutt. Why? You can set up an IMAP store on the mail you've popped from Gmail. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]