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Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com> posted |
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1160353054.22548.14.camel@×××××××××.localdomain, excerpted below, on Sun, |
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08 Oct 2006 20:17:33 -0400: |
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> Well, that was also an enlightening e-mail. I just disabled and deleted |
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> all cookies in Firefox, and now I'm going to do as Richard described and |
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> setup my own e-mail account. Any good ideas/howto's about how to setup a |
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> mail server? |
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FWIW, I use konqueror as my default browser and have it set to accept |
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session cookies by default -- but those are deleted when konqueror exits |
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so don't stay around long. Konqueror has a default cookie option, but |
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allows different policies for individual sites. My default (other than |
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for session cookies) is don't allow, but I do have a few sites I do allow |
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them on -- my bank's site, for example, for online banking, and LWN.org |
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(Linux Weekly News) so I can post article followups using my account there. |
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Konqueror has similar settings for Java (which I don't have any version of |
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merged as most are slaveryware, and I've not needed it enough to bother |
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with the freedomware versions), and javascript, which again I keep off by |
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default, but allow for a very few specific sites, including my bank. It |
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also has a plugin (part of konq-plugins in kdeaddons I'm guessing) that |
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allows me to one-shot quick-switch both the cookie and the scripting |
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settings and reload a page if it doesn't work without it. That's fairly |
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often required for scripting, as many sites require it nowdays. However, |
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even with scripting enabled, konqueror has finer security settings on what |
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it is allowed to do (like popups yes/no/ask, etc), and those too have a |
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general default with per-site exceptions available where needed. |
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I'm guessing Firefox (which I don't have merged) has similar per-site |
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options, altho it's possible you need an extension for full control. |
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As for mail servers, I don't know enough on the subject to be worth |
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posting on, so I won't. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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