Carey, thanks for your information:

At 21:28 14.10.1997 +1300, Carey wrote:

>You could use qmail, exim, sendmail or smail, or maybe another, not
>necessarily in that order.  I use and like qmail, despite the author's
>attitude and the fact that there's no real Debian package.

Any idea where I can check out qmail?
 
>
>> - which web- and proxyserver to use 
>
>Apache is the most widely used web server and probably a good choice.
>
>There's basically just one choice for web proxy: squid.  

This comes with the Debian release or is it to be found elsewhere?


>If you put a POP server on your Linux machine, it looks like an ISP.
>Qmail comes with one.  Use Pegasus Mail or whatever on the Windows
>machine.

Downloaded Pegasus and installed. Have not gone into details but it should 
serve the purpose od multipule users for one machine. 

>I like Gnus under XEmacs, and it's not to bad once it's set up.  VM
>and (X)Emacs might be easier to start with.  I've heard good things
>about Mutt.

Don't know about them yet. I will have to try them after I have installed 
Linux. 

>> My immediate aim is to install that which will serve my purpose and
>> save as much precious time on un- and re-installing different
>> applications.
>
>This is not actually too bad under Debian.  You can even get your old
>configuration back.

That is one reason why I choose Debian, though it took some time to get it from 
the US. Here in India Slackware is available, but I had to give up a previous 
installation of a free distribution of it.


Dirk Kievith

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