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On 5/27/21 4:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Showing my age... I started using linux on a spare machine with 16 |
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> ***MEGA***bytes of ram approx year 1999 or 2000, and the ram was |
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> perfectly sufficient. |
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Yep. I did similar. |
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Though I think /what/ is done *and* /how/ it is done are significantly |
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different now than they were ~20 years ago. |
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Thunderbird and Firefox are my big RAM consumers that are open all the |
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time. Virtual Machines use more (and are one of the reasons I'm |
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building a new system) memory, but they aren't open all the time. |
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Ignoring the SSL / TLS connection issues, I don't know if a distro from |
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~20 years ago could do what I want to do today. I know that my email |
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workload is multiple orders of magnitude larger today than back then. |
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/If/ Netscape Communicator /can/ handle my email (via an SSL / TLS proxy |
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like stunnel), then we have some big problems. -- /me grumbles as he's |
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now probably going to end up trying things. |
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Aside: I wonder if I can get around the SSL/TLS issue by leveraging |
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IPsec to protect credentials between the external IPs and configure |
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Netscape Communicator for stock IMAP & SMTP. |
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-- |
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Grant. . . . |
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unix || die |
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