[X-Unix] local IMAP server?

Michael Gmail mgrant at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 05:24:39 PST 2005


On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:36 AM, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:

> If one of the clients you use is Apple's Mail then be warned that I
> eventually gave up on my local IMAP server because Mail had some bugs 
> (or so
> it seemed to me). Things got messy and I resorted to the old way of 
> doing
> things, i. e. POP, for now. I really like Mail, though, so maybe 
> Tiger's
> Mail will fix this.

Can you elaborate on the problems you had?

>
> As for running Postfix to send your own mail: I do that. But it has 
> some
> problems, too, as some spam scanners look for private SMTP-servers and 
> then
> block that mail. Happens when I send from home to work, for instance.

Yeah, it's still useful to keep the ISP's mail relay as a backup for 
those instances.

Michael

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