On Friday 24 February 2006 23:59, Jon Pruente wrote:
On 2/22/06, Luke-Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 08:16, Jon Pruente wrote:
On 2/21/06, Luke-Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
eh, what happened to procmail? still works here...
It'll still work whereever it gets installed and configured.
Which happens in one place: your mail server.
Which assumes tht I have or even want to run a mail server. Or any local server on my house.
A computer's purpose is to serve humans. A private network server isn't too much different than a private local service (such as X and KDE), except for technical implementations.
And therein lie some of the headaches. http://www.applefritter.com/node/10053
That presumes you need a UPS. If it's a private server, you don't.
Unless I do something very stupid to my server, I can always surf over to dashjr.org and login to get my mail.
Or something bad happens to your hardware, as in the thread on my UPS above.
An additional mail server isn't going to make that any more likely than it would otherwise be. Besides, it's not much more likely to happen with my hardware as it is to happen with Google's hardware. Sure, they'll have backups, but you should too. (Note: with this last statement, I am somewhat a hypocrite, since I have virtually no backups at this point due to their expense-- but they're still a *very* good idea)
Huh? What headaches? Unless you're even worse than I am with keeping free disk space...
Local space, server space, keeping one machine alive to be a server for any length of time. ;)
Sure, I'm assuming you already have a computer... No need for it to be a separate server box.
So once they get their act together I can get things sorted better.
emerge courier-imap
The main difference in our methods involve running a server. For 99.9% of people, that isn't even an option.
For 99.9% of people, they are indeed limited to using what others provide. That's no reason the 0.1% of us who aren't limited as such shouldn't use our talents.