I do not know if this qualifies as an option, but I use a second server with IMAP.
All my mail goes there and I set thunderbird from either windows or linux to use that server as the mail source and to send everything through it.
One advantage is that it gets all my mail during the day and does the spam filtering without occupying my main machine. Maybe it's overkill, but then again, if Ihave a spare server around, why not use it?
Javier
On 3/29/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 17:41, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > I've never trusted a vfat partition since.
>
> You know, it would be a lot more logical not to trust CPU fans...
>
The fact remains that I lost nothing from the ext3 partitions.
> Modern CPUs are provided with fans for a reason. Some CPUs are better
> than others at halting the system when the fan fails -- it sounds like
> you experienced quite a bit of collateral damage.
>
Actually, I think it's truer to say that some motherboards are better at
halting the system when a fan fails. If it had been the only system in the
room I might have saved it by manual intervention, but I mis-heard the source
and hit the wrong shutdown button.
> In particular, you can't trust a CPU to work as designed in such cases,
> and any writes to disk are dodgy.
>
> Actually, come to think of it, not trusting computers or *any*
> filesystems would also be a logical conclusion.
>
> At least, not trusting them enough that you run regular backups.
>
I'm sure you have met Murphy and his cousid Sod ;-) Almost everything was
backed up, but the newest set of holiday photos wasn't.
Anne
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