On Monday 26 November 2018 21:22:35 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 26.11.18 17:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Get on the horn and ask your isp if they run a mailserver. Mine > > does, and I use it, but when I first started, I had to call their > > network guy and have him whitelist all the mailing lists I an on. > > Here, down under, that's the norm - I've never heard of an ISP which > so despises the 'S' that there's no mail. We generally have a choice > of IMAP or POP3. (I have fetchmail set to use the latter.) > > > Other than that, it just works, and I'm only getting perhaps .01% of > > the spam I was getting thru a qmail server I used previously as an > > ex employee. > > Ditto. I've had to use my ISP's GUI utility to relax their spam > filtering, else I miss out on even notices of specials from the > vendors I deal with. The few unwanted which then also sneak in are > just diverted with an additional procmail recipe, as that utility is > already in place for distributing list mail to individual mailboxes. > (Saves learning yet another app when not really needed.) > > Erik
Theres an echo in here, sounds exactly like what I've been doing for the last 20+ years. Very very little work to keep track of around 40 mailing lists I'm on, an eclectic list some have called it. I even wrote a script to couple kmail so the incoming mail only exists few a few milliseconds in /var/mail. I'm a lazy cuss, let the computer handle all that stuff, that is what I built it for, to work FOR me. And its been very happy being my slave. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
