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On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 08:23, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:21:22PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > Easy to use?? Pardon? I can never get mutt to do anything useful (like > > retrieve POP3 email). > > mutt is a mail reader. Not a pop spooler. Personally I found it pretty easy to set up pop retrieval in mutt, once I had actually found the relevant part of the config file, just a little below the section for setting up gpg. Compared to pine it was pretty easy to set up, I still haven't figured out how to set up pine properly. > > on test without spreading the email over different clients too - let's see, > > evolution, mutt, Mozilla Mail - 8*3 > too many data stores! > > There should be a common store in a mailbox format, which all can > access. That is a good idea, although IMAP has that pretty much covered, it would be nice if mail clients would all dump their messages to the same area, so you could access your local mail archive not matter which MUA you happened to be using at the time. However this might limit the ability of clients like evolution to file all your incomeing mail into relevant folders on delivery, which I find quite handy. At the moment I just have mutt set up to leave messages on the pop server. > > usenet = spam > > email = spam too? > > usenet is fantastic. I enjoy google groups, and I adore alt.binaries :) Yes, it is a great time sink, and I have to say that I have never received spam to this, or my last address, that has definitely come because a spammer has harvested my address from usenet, I use the me@xxxxxxxxxxx [1] address in my from and have my address in the reply-to field. I've got quite a few viruses that I can definitely say have come because I have posted on usenet, especially the windows security update virus [2], which just goes to show that even computer viruses are smarter than spammers. All my spam at the moment seems to be due to someone dictionary attacking the beeb.net domain. > client: slrn Slrn is good, I use that for the technical groups I read, cos I like the filters it enables, but I use gnus for the other groups I read, cos I like the interface, and it means I can use one rpogram for nearly everything. > > IRC = spam > > Again, I don't know what chat channels you have been on. Or what client > you use. But my experiences on IRC (Freenode in particular) have been > pleasant. Never got any spam AFAIK from IRC, but then I never give my address out on IRC anyway. IRC is another complete timesink though. /me wonders if emacs has an IRC client hidden away somewhere ;) -- James jamesk[at]beeb[dot]net Adult, n.: One old enough to know better.
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