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Jonathan Roberts wrote: > But then what is the benefit? As far as I can tell there's no reason > for me to move from one to the other; but then I think there must be > some benefits as people use desktop mail clients alot (or it seems > that way!). > > It's a good point about being able to borrow an e-mail address - maybe > I will look in to pgp etc... 'Borrowing' or more accurately hijacking an email address is as simple as finding an Open Relay, establishing a telnet to it on port 25, and then knowing the commands to fake a sufficiently plausible email. telnet [mailserver] 25 helo (on some servers you may need to identify yourself) mail from:senders address which gives you :- 250 Sender <senders address> Ok rcpt to:recipients address which gives you :- 250 Recipient <recipients address> Ok data which gives you :- 354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF> To set a subject field type :- subject: subject title To set recipient field :- to:recipient name To set from field type :- from:from name Then just type in message body content Finish the message with <CRLF>.<CRLF> (i.e. enter - fullstop - enter) Which will give you :- . 250 Message received: On the subject of email, can you not top-post please? It's a pain in the bum to figure out which comments you're answering :) (also bad netiquette). Personally I prefer ISP/local mail. Although for Uni it's handy being able to pick up my mail on the web at home or in Uni and not worry about 'Did I print that off before I left the house?', I prefer a system where *I* have control over my mail archive. If for example Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc had a catastrophic failure and their mail records got wiped out, I would have lost all my mail on that provider until such time as they recovered off their backups (and that assumes it wasn't a physical disaster that destroyed the *actual* records). My way I have total control over my mail archive and if it gets lost/deleted/destroyed I have nobody to blame except myself. I don't have to wait for a third party to figure out a) that something bad has happened, b) what they're going to do about it and c) to actually do it; leaving me without mail in the interim. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html