Mail setup on new Debian desktop
Hi,
A couple of days ago I asked this group how well Debian can perform as a
desktop. Encouraged by the answers, I am currently building a Debian system
from mainly the testing and a bit from the unstable dists. Most of it went
well.
I am yet undecided how to do mail to and from my system. I know I can
install a client which logs in to the various pop-accounts I have and
handle things like I am used to in Windows.
I read the Mail-adm.-howto and know a little bit about 'how it should be
done' (tm). If I go down this route I think I will need:
Exim/qmail/sendmail, fetchmail, procmail. I can then use any mail client I
want to read and compose mail and change it any time without conversion. Is
this outline correct?
Is it recommended for a single user desktop system to do all this or do
most people just use pop and smtp from within Evolution/Kmail/etc? And if
they do, what happens with messages from system-users or cron-jobs or
whatever else might feel the need to warn/inform (super-) users?
Do I have other alternatives than the two I mentioned or am I missing
something that I'd better know of in advance.
Thanks,
Bob
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