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I talked with my friend who works for the company that hosts my website. He claimed that they had the secure protocols, but that I'd need a SSL certificate (which costs money). Is that correct?
Note: I'm not running an email site - the email account(s) for that site is just for my own use - i.e. myusername@mydomain.com
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Mutt-devel (and I think mutt-stable) support pop3(s) and imap(s). I'm sticking with mutt-devel because it supports imap header caching (and I'm going to use imaps with my new webhost). Using mutt's built in imap support, I don't need fetchmail and I can configure different mailboxes on the webhost's side, so I don't need procmail. (but they are both great programs to use - it was fun learning procmail's quirky format!) Mutt-devel does support smtp(s), but it doesn't seem to work very well. I thought I'd be able to just use the one program and be done with it. I had to recompile postfix with sasl support (which isn't compiled in the postfix that comes with NetBSD). But, then I found ssmtp. It does what I need. I am not running a mail server. I have one specific need and that is to relay the mail from mutt and my computer to the smtp server of my webhost. Using postfix (or sendmail) is like using a crowbar to open a bottle cap. It's overkill for my application. Ssmtp works for what I need it to do. So now my setup is mutt-devel (using it's own built-in imaps support) and ssmtp. Ssmtp works with gmail (a bugger to get to work right using any program!) using smtp over ssl and hopefully it will work with the stmp server of my new webhost (I should be making the switch this weekend - so we'll see).
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Is anyone here using pgp or gpg with email. I was going to install and try out pgp, but pkgsrc warned me that it used a fee-based commercial license. There's gpg, but I really can't stand GNU and try to avoid their software when possible.
I thought I might give it a go, not that I have any illusions of complete privacy, but it might keep the newbie crackers at bay (not that I send any top secret data through email ).
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No it's not..
OpenBSD has 3 ports related to PGP:
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there is a new minimalistic mta in /usr/ports/mail/ within the
past couple of days. ............... relevant to the post above... mutt-devel for some reason does not build here. So I switched to mutt (plain) ...........
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Since the mailbox it is accessing gets a subscribed mailing, it has currently ~3700 messages. With the header cache it takes about 5 seconds to load, without about 2-3 minutes (every time). I tried the syntax set header_cache = ~/.mutt_cache in mutt-stable, but it claims it isn't supported. Does anyone know of a way to do that in mutt-stable - cache the IMAP headers for quick loading?
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After reading several online guides, it seems that at the present that gnupg is the way to go.
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Here's another mail related question: which mailbox format do you prefer? mbox and maildir seem to be the two most popular, but there are others.
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Nobody noticed that it was generating the same 32,767 keys over and over again, rofl. |
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At one point, I signed all my messages.. but it was tiresome trying to explain the "gibberish" to family and friends. Nobody ever sent me super secret important encrypted emails either.. Do you work for the government? no? then you don't need such privacy.. just encrypt files using OpenSSL ..or another tool, whatever the recipient prefers even. |
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mbox stores each "folder" as a single text file, with the messages all concatenated together. Deleted messages leave holes in the file, and only 1 process can be updating the file at a time. If a process crashed mid-update, you lose the whole "folder". Very slow as well, as the entire file needs to be read to generate the folder listing. Just don't use it! maildir uses real folders for each mail folder, support sub-folders, and stores each message in individual files. Multiple processes can be updating folders, although only 1 process can update each file. You can multi-task properly (delete messages, create new messages, update messages). And you get much faster performance. |
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