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> X-Message-flag: WARNING: MS-Outlook causes cancer in rats
> 

Eh, wot?
Is that the Sturgeon General warning?
;)

(was looking for the X-mailer flag, to determine the email application - 
could not find it)

> > >From what I understand, the mail server, using postfix, is POP.
> 
> Your mail server has nothing to do with mail collection, unless you are
> running courier - which is an evil beast and shall never be mentioned here
> again. *grin*
> 
> IMAP is the way to go if you wish to acces your mail on the
> server interactively.  Just install one of the main imap servers and tell
> pine to use it. wu-imapd is probably the best choice since it was written
> by the same people who wrote pine (washington uni)
> 

I understood that IMAP was used by webmail applications, and that the 
email messages stayed on the mail server unless manually deleted; that 
it did not allow downloading and filtering of messages. Obviously, my 
understanding of email applications, is somewhat lacking.

> Also, while pine is a GREAT email reader (IMHO), filtering is best left to
> the "experts" (eg procmail)
> 

I understood that procmail was like sendmail - for qualified sorcerers.

Our setup was created a couple or few years ago, after one of the 
meetings that was held at Fast Eddy's, when PLUG used to regularly have 
some of the monthly meetings there. It was when RH 6.2 was the latest 
and greatest version of RH, and our firewall was set up using a big file 
that uses ipchains. The server still uses the same configuration, and RH 
6.2. We were advised to use postfix, behind fetchmail, as the mail 
server application, rather than, for example, sendmail, which was the 
other option, as it was more easy to set up, not being qualified 
sorcerers.

It appears that we need to rethink and upgrade our whole network 
(another month or so, to be used up... :( ).

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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