[Alpine-info] Re: Dumb Gmail questions

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:53:52 -0500, Art Greenberg wrote:


> Since you're using a Linux box, you can do what I did, if you like to

> tinker.


	I don't, myself; but I have friends who do.


> My in-house Linux machine uses fetchmail to collect incoming email from

> all of my personal accounts, including one on Gmail, and forwards it all

> to a single local account. That machine also runs UW IMAP. Incoming mail

> is then "refactored" using procmail (not according to source account,

> but other ways that make more sense for my purposes), and I read it all

> with Alpine from any of my machines, logging into the IMAP server.


	Hmmm -- are you saying that one dedicated machine functions only 
as a mailserver? Or, perhaps, that you have one of those arrangements I 
can't think of the name of, where only one machine is exposed to the Net, 
and all the others do all their connections (not just mail) through it?


> I've also got SpamAssassin and ClamAV going, but that's off-topic.


	Well, I look like being stuck with Comcast for Net access; they 
and Gmail both boast loudly of their spamfighting prowess -- do I hear 
that being something like "high-speed internet," which seems to be a 
euphemism for glorified dialup?

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.