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 -- CADD Services & WebDesign | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 | http://www.webstudio6.com -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .