Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:53:53AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: On the other hand, keep mail on server means every invocation of fetchmail grabs yet another copy of the mail box, and if you've set it up to poll every five minutes, you may find you have six thousand copies of whatever landed in

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/08 05:01, Mihira Fernando wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/08 06:48, Mihira Fernando wrote: Dawn Light wrote: An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice.

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-12 Thread Kevin Mark
I think this should be on the CD's we ship: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:21:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Compiling all the apps from source, and then writing the .conf files from scratch is probably daunting to a non-expert, but Debian (of course, I really mean the Debian Developers who do

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 06:48, Mihira Fernando wrote: Dawn Light wrote: An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice. [snip] Any suggestions and comments about anything, including the

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-11 Thread Mihira Fernando
s. keeling wrote: Mihira Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If no IMAP is offered, next easiest to do is to enable the keep mail on server option in the POP3 settings and configure all work stations to use POP3. In ALL works stations enable the Keep mail on server option. I'd like to live in

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-11 Thread Mihira Fernando
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 06:48, Mihira Fernando wrote: Dawn Light wrote: An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice. [snip] Any suggestions and comments about

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-11 Thread s. keeling
Mihira Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If no IMAP is offered, next easiest to do is to enable the keep mail on server option in the POP3 settings and configure all work stations to use POP3. In ALL works stations enable the Keep mail on server option. I'd like to live in Theory. In Theory,

Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Dawn Light
An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice. In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP workstations for the architects to do their design work with. One of those workstations has a common E-mail

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:35:21PM +0200, Dawn Light wrote: ... In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP workstations for the architects to do their design work with. One of those workstations has a common E-mail client installed which works with one E-mail

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dawn Light: Some incoming messages are adressed to the office and some are addressed to the various architects ( There is only one E-mail address). Thus anyone who wishes to read his incoming messages and send messages needs to physically go and use the workstation with the mail client.

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 10:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] Looks something like this for inbound mail: ISP servers - fetchmail - exim4 - mailboxes** - IMAP server (I like dovecaot). Or... ISP servers - (on Debian mail server) fetchmail - postfix

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Mihira Fernando
Dawn Light wrote: An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice. In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP workstations for the architects to do their design work with. One of those workstations has