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Stupid Hint - Automatically retrieve received emails into Mail
Authored by: seunghun on Nov 30, '03 06:54:08PM

i used to use qmail and read all of my mails on mutt. (using fetchmail for a while as well as my own account on the server) I still read my mails on mutt. No procmail was involved; I am actually a fan of Maildir.

My point about having own mail server is that AOL and a few other ISP have started blocking mails from residential IP as an anti-spam measure. Go ahead and try to send an email to your AOL friend. It'll get bounced because you are on a residential email. In my case, I needed to send a bunch of emails to a group of people, which a large percentage of used AOL. It just became too much hassle.



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Stupid Hint - Automatically retrieve received emails into Mail
Authored by: rotaiv on Dec 01, '03 07:36:49AM

I run my own mail server (with sendmail and procmail) on a residential IP and personally, I don't think I'd every want to use an ISP's mail server again! The point about outgoing mail from residential IP is valid but that is not to say you even have to use your mail server for outgoing email.

What I do is configure my clients to use my ISP's official SMTP server for *outgoing* and use my own mail server (via dyndns.org) for *incoming* mail. This has worked great for me and while I have had some minor issues, it has been a lot less than my previous ISP.



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