[SGVLUG] Who has experience w/mail servers (specifically, message aging/archiving)

[John E. Kreznar]

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Tom Emerson <osnut at pacbell.net> writes:

> ... if the admin at home ever sells my e-mails stored on the server
> to the highest bidder, I'm *really* in trouble...

But who's the admin at home?  You, right?  <puzzled>

> About a month or two ago, I was forcibly "migrated" to their "new"
> servers, and in the process the "spamblocker" service was
> automatically enabled.

Avoid being a pawn of your ISP by taking your mail by SMTP straight to
a local host in the first place.  This avoids the fetchmail polling.
Advantages:

   Mail is delivered as soon as it's sent; no polling latency.

   Nobody else filters your mail; you're in charge.  You can do it
   exactly as you please.

   You can have as many email addresses as you wish and not have to
   consult with your ISP about them.

   No need to "announce to the world" the moment in time when you read
   mail (though this doesn't apply to you because your polling is by
   the clock autonomously anyway).

(My ulterior motive here is to keep alive the demand for static IP
addresses (needed for SMTP mail receipt), lest they become even more a
premium item than now.)

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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