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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu>wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no |
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> longer |
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> > able |
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> > to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). |
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> Do you actually need a full blown mail server? If you just relay your |
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> mail to your ISP, then you may be able to simplify your life using |
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> something like nbsmtp. |
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> I used to take mail locally, via sendmail, since I stopped using uucp |
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around 1987. When I found out about postfix, it |
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was good riddance to those re-write rules. Then I simplified by sending it |
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all to the ISP so I now have just 3 mail spools: |
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1) gmail for all my mailing lists because they'll let me spool forever it |
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seems -- my quota is over 7GB and |
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I'm using maybe 30% after about 8 years. This is stuff were privacy doesn't |
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matter to me. |
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2) My ISP, because it's more reliable than I can do at home. |
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3) Work, which I can't avoid. |
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At home I stuck to Postfix because until now it never gave me a lick of |
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trouble. I'm pretty old and no longer |
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get much joy out of learning yet another tool for its own sake. It's gotta |
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be LOTS better than what I have. In the |
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last year I've only taken on m4, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. There are good |
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enough reasons for each. |
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If I were a few decades younger, this would have been good advice, so thanks |
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for the tip. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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