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Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service

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On Monday 26 November 2018 21:22:35 Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On 26.11.18 17:13, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Get on the horn and ask your isp if they run a mailserver. Mine
> > does, and I use it, but when I first started, I had to call their
> > network guy and have him whitelist all the mailing lists I an on.
>
> Here, down under, that's the norm - I've never heard of an ISP which
> so despises the 'S' that there's no mail. We generally have a choice
> of IMAP or POP3. (I have fetchmail set to use the latter.)
>
> > Other than that, it just works, and I'm only getting perhaps .01% of
> > the spam I was getting thru a qmail server I used previously as an
> > ex employee.
>
> Ditto. I've had to use my ISP's GUI utility to relax their spam
> filtering, else I miss out on even notices of specials from the
> vendors I deal with. The few unwanted which then also sneak in are
> just diverted with an additional procmail recipe, as that utility is
> already in place for distributing list mail to individual mailboxes.
> (Saves learning yet another app when not really needed.)
>
> Erik

Theres an echo in here, sounds exactly like what I've been doing for the 
last 20+ years. Very very little work to keep track of around 40 mailing 
lists I'm on, an eclectic list some have called it.

I even wrote a script to couple kmail so the incoming mail only exists 
few a few milliseconds in /var/mail. I'm a lazy cuss, let the computer 
handle all that stuff, that is what I built it for, to work FOR me. And 
its been very happy being my slave.

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> - 2018-11-26 15:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Ben Oliver <ben@bfoliver.com> - 2018-11-26 16:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-11-26 16:00 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-26 17:30 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-11-26 16:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-26 23:20 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-11-27 03:30 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 04:00 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-11-27 14:50 +0100
            Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 15:20 +0100
              Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-27 15:50 +0100
                Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 20:40 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-27 04:00 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service "Michelle Konzack" <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> - 2018-11-29 09:10 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-11-26 16:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-11-26 17:50 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-26 17:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-11-26 17:30 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service John Cunningham <djohngo@gmail.com> - 2018-11-26 17:40 +0100
  Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-27 04:20 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-11-27 05:10 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-11-27 07:30 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-27 19:30 +0100
    Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Ben Oliver <ben@bfoliver.com> - 2018-11-27 10:00 +0100
      Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 05:10 +0100
        Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-07 11:10 +0100
          Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-12-07 15:40 +0100
  <<SOLVED>> Re: Looking for a "friendly" e-mail service mark@neidorff.com - 2018-12-10 16:20 +0100

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