Re: IceDove vs Kmail

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:30:08 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: [snip]

> OT, but I set up an MTA (postfix, in my case) as a relay host. So,
> whether using Icedove, Kmail, Mutt, whatever, I always send email to
> my computer (haggis). Postfix then turns around and relays it to my
> ISP's smtp server. This, along with fetchmail+IMAP gives me total
> MUA independence. (Might not work with multiple profiles, but I
> haven't tried to do any fancy Postfix configuration.)

We've had this discussion before, but I'll just reiterate that I actually prefer to configure my MUA's internal MTA functionality and not rely only on my main SMTP server (Exim, which happens to be on the same box, but that doesn't really matter) to do relaying, to avoid having a single point of failure. Exim / Gmail has not always been the most reliable partnership ...

> As you can see from the headers of this email which I sent out a few
> days ago, Icedove sent it to Postfix at 23:45:26 UTC, Postfix
> received it 5 seconds later, and (anomalously) my ISP received it at
> 23:44:26, a minute before I sent it.

Wow, a tachyonic email setup; I want one!

> Received: from haggis.homelan ([68.105.48.3])
> by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp
> id fBkS1Y00F047iJk0000000; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:44:26 -0500
> Received: by haggis.homelan (Postfix, from userid 1002)
> id 71725240B47; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:45:31 +0000 (UTC)
> Received: from [192.168.1.10] (haggis.homelan [192.168.1.10])
> by haggis.homelan (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74CD2409E1
> for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Sat, 19 Jan 2008
> 23:45:26 +0000 (UTC)
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.

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