29 Jan
2013
29 Jan
'13
12:11 a.m.
On 01/28/2013 05:40 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Interesting. Not an option unless you run your own mailserver, I
guess, or have shell-level access to one.
But I am afraid that I am a child of the 1990s in email terms. I want
a GUI and a couple of forms to fill in.
Sometimes having a flexible configuration, advanced functionality,
high performance, and security require a little bit of work.
IMAP could do the folders, sure. But what it
couldn't do is the rules.
Really? My current Dovecot sieve script is 1,411 lines long. It sort
messages from various mailing lists into 236 different mailboxes. At the
moment I have 3,042,355 messages total in those mailboxes. I'm an e-mail
pack rat. Many years ago, I was able to make config changes to
sendmail.cf and
have it work, and was happy to write shell scripts to automate stuff.
Today, I avoid that kind of thing if at all possible.
I do it too. My approach is to do it and make sure I do it right, so
I only have to do it once.
Yes, it does require some upkeep, but it's a few hours' work per year,
which isn't much...and that's providing a lot of functionality and
services for upwards of a hundred people.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA