On Sun, August 19, 2007 9:25 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
> James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
>
>>> Gus has implied that I don't need it at all. Is this true?
>>
>> Not sure. I'd like to hear opinions from mail-gurus -- especialy those
>> who use laptops a lot. And from those latter, what special
>> considerations might there be regarding offline work habits.
>>
>> I'd like to hear general recommendations for users behind NAT who use
>> their ISP's (or some other external provider's) mail services. I assume
>> this represents a relatively huge fraction of users.
>>
>> Then, there might be a need for a breakdown into users who don't do
>> anything fancy (Aunt Tilly users), and users who like to get into
>> trouble [uno hoo] by running _interesting_ programs -- in particular,
>> things that send mail (eg /bin/mail, even).
>>
>>>From time to time I tried not running an MTA on the basis of minimizing
>> services, but I always ran into difficulties when doing command line
>> stuff with /bin/mail -- so I fell back into running the service.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ..jim (needs de-confusing as much as LB, maybe more)
>
> You do not need an MTA on a laptop. I've had mine (sendmail) turned off
> ever since I got the thing over three years ago. You can also turn off
> just about everything else that Fedora has running without any harm.
>
> Lan uses Squirrel Mail which is a web interface that talks to some
> remote mail service that I believe is IMAP running on one of Neil's
> servers. No MTA is required or desired on the laptop.
>
> As far as mailing logs goes, turn that off also. It's a waste of time
> and effort. If you have a problem with the laptop, look at the logs
> right then and there.
>
> Gus
>
>
makes sense.
FWIW, I hate squirrelmail. I've just been too lazy to set up
mutt/fetchmail/postfix on a box at home that I can ssh into. mutt is a joy
to work with, and web interfaces generally suck dead bunnies. I think that
every time I use one of the PHB-mandated web interfaces ("We'll
_standardize_!") at work.
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