Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use

[Robert Stoffers]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:51 -0500, 'Forum Post wrote:
> Did you ever get this to go?
> 
> 
> 
> After a fairly large amount of effort (mostly trying to find
> instructions, and then getting the motivation to carry them out and
> pick out what was relavent) I have an imap set up on my home LAN
> getting pop3 from my remote webserver. I need to write down exactly
> what I did in case I need to do it all again, and to help out anyone
> who might be interested in doing the same thing. 
> 
> 
> 
> I think as time goes on and more people have home networks this will
> become more sought after.
> 
> 
> -- 
> amorangi
> 

I remember a piece of advice I once heard, it went something along the
lines of:

"there is no need to run your own mail server for home use, open relays
are bad mmmkay?"

There's a number of reasons for this, but accidentally running an open
relay mail server due to some configuration error would be the biggest
problem. Besides that, Gmail and others already to a great job, have
free pop3 access and are available wherever you have an Internet
connection.  Why not just use these free services instead? If your only
doing it so you can filter spam, use SpamAssassin with Evolution as an
alternative (see http://krath.dk/linux/evolution_spamfilter/ for more
info). 

Regards,

-- 
Robert Stoffers
Author/Maintainer - Ubuntu Starter Guide
Ubuntu Documentation Team