[oclug] help request: is this a good email solution

[Scott Moynes]

* Olaf Baumann (olaf at ottawa.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>    Over the years I have never really been satisfied with my email 
> access.  Issues like buggy email clients or wishing to access email from 
> different platforms (or remotely) and such have always nagged at me. 
> Now I am setting out on a quest for my ultimate email solution.
>    Here are some of my requirements:
> - I would like to access my email from multiple platforms (mostly Linux, 
> but sometimes from windows)
> - read email that is delivered to multiple email accounts that provide 
> POP access
> - it would be nice to access my email while away from home (web email 
> client like twig perhaps) securely
> - access the same email from both my desktop and my laptop
> - have my email retrieved from my POP accounts at regular intervals 
> rather than initiating email retrieval
> - some spam handling would be nice
> - GPG support would also be a plus
> - perhaps have specific scripts executed when certain email header 
> criteria are met (e.g. if subject==SEND PAGE, then forward to my phone's 
> SMS service)

I've managed to meet most of those requirements with mutt, ssh,
procmail and fetchmail. If I am away from home, I simply ssh into my
desktop. In the past I've also used a http web mail program called
sqwebmail (I think) that could read a user's Maildir. When I stopped
using it, they were even in the process of adding web based filter
editing, which was pretty neat. It could be used through SSL, so was
fairly secure. I've never used twig, so I can't comment on its
features.

Your idea of using IMAP is pretty good, however, there has been a
history of fairly serious security problems in many IMAP daemons.

That's my CAN$0.02

scott

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