Problems with extant SW for emailing

Piper pay_the_piper at shaw.ca
Sun Jul 12 17:13:49 UTC 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piper" <pay_the_piper at shaw.ca>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with Google Mail and Ubuntu


> Is it on-topic to discuss how we would like Evolution-Express types of 
> email
> SW to be improved?
>
> I would like an autoresponder under the list name so that by using a
> "reflector expression", anybody on the list would be sending the posting
> back out to all on the list.
>
> example 1) "ABC List" in the subject line and if anybody on ABC in the
> Address Book replies, it goes out to all the others on ABC.
>
> example 2) automated sub-unsub so that anybody on ABC can automatically
> sub/unsub.
>
> The ISPs have NO reason to object. This kind of SW is only the business of
> the client. It is PRIVATE listerver SW and not a PUBLIC listserver.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl Friis-Hansen" <ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 7:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Problem with Google Mail and Ubuntu
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, July 12, 2009 06:20, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Postfix can only *send* mail.
>>>
>>> That's a rather odd assertion.  Postfix certainly _does_ receive mail.
>>> It
>>> listens on port 25 (usually) and the interfaces you specify.  If you 
>>> only
>>> allow localhost, then essentially it only sends mail.  But if it listens
>>> on
>>> an Internet-connected interface, then it can indeed receive mail.
>>
>> You are right, but what I wanted to say with the statement is that 
>> Postfix
>> do not provide an in interface to actually receive your email from
>> wherever the end-station might be.  For that one normally need an
>> application that can go directly, via the file system to the local mail
>> folders, or a two tier system with IMAP/POP server and a usual email
>> client.
>> I have a feeling that we both know that we are right, based on the
>> viewpoint  :-)
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