Re: Mail server question

Mark Matula <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.luni.tech
Organization Saddlebrook Farms
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On 11/24/2010 09:20 AM, Eric MacAdie wrote:
> I have a few questions for the list.
>
> Does anyone on the list run their own mail servers?
>    

Used to, for both home and work, for about 10 years. Still have a 
'server' at home to pool mail from local hosts and get it out to a 
'real' mail server, but now all of the heavy lifting is done at/by 
bluehost.com. The ONLY things I really miss are nightly tarballs of my 
mailboxes, pine (don't judge), and some more coplex filtering/scripting 
I CAN do with bluehost, but not as easily.


> If so, which ones? Do you get your mail via POP or IMAP?
>    

Generally set up exim on new machines. My old servers ran sendmail 
because I knew it pretty well and if it ain't broke . . . POP and IMAP 
were both options. I have everyone at work set up for IMAP w/ bluehost 
now (mostly using Thunderbird/IceDove or in rare cases, SquirrelMail web 
client on the client end).

> How many people use gmail for their email?
>    

I have a couple gmail accounts so I can use other google features, but 
it is by no means my main mail provider.

HTH.

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