On Friday 16 December 2005 12:20 pm, James Wilkinson wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > I'm afraid you're over my head - I'll have to research all this. I've > > never used mutt or postfix, so I don't know anything about them. Thanks > > for the ideas - I'll do some homework. > > Sorry: they were supposed to be examples, based on what I'm running. > > You should be able to use any e-mail client, not just mutt. > > Postfix isn't really relevant at all: I use the traditional "local MTA" > for various reasons. If your ISP has a reasonable smarthost (= "SMTP > server"), you could just send your list e-mail out through that. > > The main point is that the way you send e-mails to the list (or > elsewhere) need not have anything much to do with the way you receive > them. > Well, this is the thread that fights for life. Maybe this will be useful to others, so I'll respond. This exercise began as a way to create a way to offload email traffic from my business email account when I needed to. The problem is simple: my business account provides antiquated, ridiculously small, mailbox capacities. I've gotten them to increase those from 10mb to 50 as a result of recent problems, but, with a 50 mb mailbox, given the volume of traffic I receive from various lists, that can overwhelm my box in about 2.75 days (I'm currently downloading over 18.5 mb of mail, the accumulation from about 35 hours). When I read of gmail's features that allow you to use your account to forward, and also the smtp/pop features, I thought this could be the way. By setting up an account, and using that to subscribe to say, Fedora-list, I could continue to receive my mail in my mailbox, but, for those times when I couldn't check the mail for a couple of days, I could always turn off the gmail forwarding, and let my list mail accumulate there. In the business world, lost email can mean lost income - this has happened to me, because for one reason or another, I couldn't check my mail, the box filled up, and the ISP started dropping my messages into the deep. Why do I want my mail to come to my local box, because that's the way I prefer to get my mail. I could give a long explanation going into the way I archive on multiple machines, etc., but, it's not necessary... So, if that's all clearer, I'm still not sure how I could do what I want to do, using the technique you suggest. My bottom line criteria are: I'd like to get my list mail delivered to my various PC's via my ISP mail account (no web mail); I'd like to be able to selectively turn off the mail from time to time from high volume lists, without losing it; I'd like to receive my own posts back to me, when I send messages to mail-lists. Gmail meets the first two criteria just fine, it's the third that's the problem. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
