Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:05:35AM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> You're the one that keeps bringing up 'accounts'. I keep asking what the
> concept of an 'account' has to do with mailboxes.
Mail account.
> Again, Steve, I have accounts on machines with no mailboxes. I have
> mailboxes on machines with no accounts. I have MULTIPLE mailboxes on
> machines with a single account.
> You do NOT read from a pop3 'account', you read from a pop3 MAILBOX.
And? A mail account can have sources from multuple "mailboxes" and a user
account can have multiple mail accounts.
> Hell, I'm smart enough to a) spot private replies and reply to them
> privately. *Hint* my last mail to you was private.
Hint, I figured it would have been to the list if I hadn't fat fingered my
reply.
> And b) I'm smart enough to only send each mail once, instead of mailing
> it once as a private reply and then sending the exact same thing to a
> list.
Well, considering I have on every other message, one might reasonable
surmise it was a mistake.
> Heck, I'm even smart enough to NOT cc people on list mail unless they've
> requested it.
> Howzabout you Steve?
Sorry, I'm not a machine like you that never, ever, EVER makes a mistake.
> What seperates 'cat' from an MDA? cat doesn't know about dotlocks or
> flock() or any of the other tricks expected of an MDA. That's it.
Interesting all, really. None of which states that Exim doesn't fill the
MDA role. I still await your points addressing that.
> In fact, of course, the reason for a seperate root account IS for
> accounting. Go look up words like 'accountability'.
Oh, gee, and you were talking about my loaded words. What do most people
think of when you say accounting? Especially in or near a sentence with
"pay".
> Because this 'workstation' also happens to be a server? Why forward it
> to another machine?
Just because you don't have a reason and find it silly does not mean there
isn't a reason for it or that other people don't have those needs.
> (Of course, I -could- if I wanted to, but that would be silly.)
Maybe in your situation. Silly in all situations?
> [*]
> Score: -9999
> %Expires:
> Message-ID: .*morpheus@teleute\.dyn\.ml\.org>
> %Score created by slrn on Wed Jul 15 10:39:39 1998
> An honored spot.
Really? Wonder if you have morpheus@*.calweb.com, morpheus@.*rpglink.com,
grey@*.rpglink.com as well.
> Yes, I should remember the words of WSB: "Never proffer sympathy to the
> mentally ill, for theirs is a bottomless pit." (From "Words of Advice to
> Young People").
You know, people who stoutly refuse that there is a problem when there so
clearly is are often considered mentally ill. There is a problem in this
scheme, Brian, no matter what your never-make-a-mistake self might think.
I'll take your advice and consider you mentally ill from now on and act
accordingly.
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Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
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