[Gllug] Evolution won't fetch my mail (Help)

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 23:16, Nix wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Aug 2002, Tethys stated:
> > 
> > Nix writes:
> >>This does *not* make me more willing to use it :(
> > 
> > Agreed. There are other reasons, too, though. I'm concerned about
> > Ximian's approach to security ("just download this file from the
> > net and pipe it into a root shell"),
> 
> Um, do we know who came up with that idea? If they're not involved
> with Evolution we can feel a bit safer ;)

Nessus does it too. :-)

> >                                      and I have grave doubts about
> > Evolution having a virus-free future.
> 
> If it has no scripting we're reasonably safe, modulo buffer overflows.

That reads somewhat like "If it has no security holes, we're safe.".

> >                                       The ability to read my mail
> > by sshing into my home machine from an internet cafe while in Canada
> > was something I wouldn't want to give up. So to that end, I'm using
> > MH.
> 
> Likewise, but s/MH/Gnus/ :)

Likewise, but web based IMAP client instead. Which works in more
internet cafes, too.

> but then I know you're a vi heathen so I'll not try to tempt you
> with the wondrous overfeaturedom of Gnus.

I use vi and emacs, for different things. For coding, I mostly use
Anjuta these days.

Dave.


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