Alan McConnell wrote:
OK, a little survey here. How many of you use mutt, or elm, or Evolution(?), and do your E-mail right from your home computer? I do, and since my ISP -- not PatriotNet, incidentally -- gives me a dynamic IP address I have to use a "smart host"/'relay host' for my E-mail to get anywhere. It has been my experience that setting this up is very difficult, requiring a good knowledge of what one's ISP requires, and what the proprietor of one's relay host requires. My Postfix setting up took quite a bit of work, and I bothered lots of people on the Postfix E-list before I got it right.
Alpine on the server, SeaMonkey on the desktop. And I run my own mail server and list server (sympa) on a server sitting in a datacenter (legacy of once having owned a small hosting company). Yup, not easy.
It's a little easier for my father-in-law - he uses Comcast's mail servers, but reads on home computer. Took a bit of work transitioning from Verizon's mailserver - what with different ISPs blocking different SMTP ports these days.
(apt still rules). I've watched one of my sons - the English major - ditch Windows for Arch Linux on his ancient Compaq laptop, learn the ins and outs of finding/installing drivers for various things, and teach himself some C and Python along the way - so you never know.Great! I congratulate him; and you!
Thanks!
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi BerraP.S. Compare my .sig of today, just below<g>.--Alan McConnell :http://patriot.net/users/alan Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A. Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
Isn't that "theoretically" = "not if I can help it?" :-) -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra