[Sussex] WARNING....

[Mark Harrison]

Mark, Geoff and Nik have agreed on something.....


This is known to be a sign of the apocalypse.....

M.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Why doesn't someone .....


> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 09:36 +0000, Mark Harrison wrote:
> > Nik,
> > 
> > This would be an excellent subject for the next LUG.
> > 
> > M.
> 
> I agree.  Proper mail config is a big issue.  
> 
> Can I suggest that a good one for the future would be setting up
> sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail on a machine with a non-resolvable hostname
> (i.e the average home users machine without a publically available DNS
> record) and combining it safely with fetchmail. 
> 
> ..it's a great irony that the user group with the least experience often
> has to deal with a more complex setup than a lot of corporate installs.
> Of course you can argue that these users can simply use Evolution (or
> suchlike) against their ISP's POP3/IMAP/SMTP sever(s) but then they'd
> loose out on the joy of mutt, r-mail or the like - and we all know Linux
> users want to fiddle.. ;)
> 
> Let me just say firmly that I am not the person to do such a
> presentation - I've done this set-up many times, and I've never felt
> wholly comfortable with it (I am not a sys-admin by trade, but a mere
> software engineer).
> -- 
> Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedltd.com>
> Cmed Technology
> 
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