-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:57:33AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Why? QMail, Sendmail, Exim and I believe Postfix all do not require an > MDA.
They do on multiuser systems, as far as I know. Why should only root be able to filter their mail? > Furthermore only one, to my knowledge, does any filtering at all. Of > course those are only the major 4 on unix. Imagine retreiving mail w/POP > from a Windows box for a moment. Why not IMAP? If you've got a shell someplace, like your own system, it's still solved for you. It's not that hard to get a shell account offering email, googling for shell access will find hundreds of free and pay shell account sites, most also come with email. sdf.lonestar.org and well.com instantly come to mind. Though, again, odds are you already have a Linux box, not that hard to adapt for your own needs, especially since you can go to www.dyndns.org and get a hostname if you need to fetch from elsewhere. > > That is not so far-fetched > >as you seem to think. The MDAs I know can also be configured by the > >user without access to global configuration file. > > Presuming the user has shell or FTP access to the machine. This is debian-user. It's a safe presumption that the vast majority of the list has a shell account on at least one machine (their own). > You're presuming they do all you need. I rather like having some mail > show up in different colors to highlight their priority in my mind. Oh, > let's not forget I also completely enjoy being able to mark them read as > they pass through the filter. It wouldn't surprise me if it is saving this info in custom headers after you have the email in your hands. If this is true, then you could tell procmail to insert those headers and prefilter anyway. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAJoJKUzgNqloQMwcRAqprAKCwcVWzYlRj0PfsDh/kdKh3G6N/HwCfWzfj A0hU2uey5pWWwNMC7gEXaQ4= =/6i1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
