Damage control out of E-Mail system of SuSE-9.0
I am getting extremely frustrated by the attitude behind
Email system development within SuSE.
In the old days with sendmail. sendmail and
mailx. That was it. Now,
according to page 101 of Userguide,
1) sendmail, seems outdated
2) postfix, SuSE's favorite
3) SMTP, what?!
fetch mails via
1) SMTP, what?!
2) fetchmail.
via protocols such as
1) POP3
2) IMAP
There are now such extras as
1) amavis
2) procmail
3) spamassassin
There is something terribly difficult to
understand
1) Enigmail
2) SSL
3) .... [I do not remember all those things anymore]
Finally, choice of user-interfaces among
1) pine
2) elm
3) mozilla
4) evolution
Now, SuSE-9.0 added one more thing:
Mail Transfer Agent within Yast2.
Was this change for good? I gave up giving my own answer.
My point is that SuSE should let us know where
the actual mail contents are going. I think
they did an extremely poor job. There is no
good information in UserGuide, either.
Let us be frank. If I were a Windows user,
I would simply use, POP3 and mozilla.
Only because I decided to use spamassassin, things got
horribly messy. I need to understand actual
flow chart of all the relevant events. I think I need to
give up using Linux for my email system.
What do you think? Do you use SuSE for
your email system?
Thanks
Hugh
PS: Now, I have a huge amount of emails unaccessible.
By spending one full day, I only found that
they must be distributed in several directories of
/var/spool/postfix/*/
But I do not know I can get them back
either in /var/spool/mail/
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 13:49:34 +0900, hugh
Any help or any philosophical discussions are welcome.
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On Fri December 5 2003 11:49 pm, hugh wrote:
I am getting extremely frustrated by the attitude behind Email system development within SuSE.
Email system development???? I doubt if they do any and I wouldn't expect them to! They provide you with a multitude of email tools, from sending, receiving, distributing, checking for spam, checking for virus's. Put all of those tools, whichever one you want to pick, together and make something of it. Or just use Mozilla mail and forget about it. I for one would not want to see SuSE 'decide' on what is going to be the email setup within their distro to the exclusion of all others. I really think you are off base on this.
In the old days with sendmail. sendmail and mailx. That was it. Now, according to page 101 of Userguide,
1) sendmail, seems outdated 2) postfix, SuSE's favorite 3) SMTP, what?!
fetch mails via
1) SMTP, what?! 2) fetchmail.
via protocols such as 1) POP3 2) IMAP
There are now such extras as 1) amavis 2) procmail 3) spamassassin
There is something terribly difficult to understand 1) Enigmail 2) SSL 3) .... [I do not remember all those things anymore]
Finally, choice of user-interfaces among 1) pine 2) elm 3) mozilla 4) evolution
Now, SuSE-9.0 added one more thing:
Mail Transfer Agent within Yast2.
Was this change for good? I gave up giving my own answer. My point is that SuSE should let us know where the actual mail contents are going. I think they did an extremely poor job. There is no good information in UserGuide, either.
Let us be frank. If I were a Windows user, I would simply use, POP3 and mozilla. Only because I decided to use spamassassin, things got horribly messy. I need to understand actual flow chart of all the relevant events. I think I need to give up using Linux for my email system.
What do you think? Do you use SuSE for your email system?
Thanks
Hugh
PS: Now, I have a huge amount of emails unaccessible. By spending one full day, I only found that they must be distributed in several directories of /var/spool/postfix/*/
But I do not know I can get them back either in /var/spool/mail/
or in my ~/mbox. Please help.
Any help or any philosophical discussions are welcome.
Hugh
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