Gonna miss the old mail
Robert Geer
I'm one of those who liked previewing my email using shell's "Mail"
program:
o I had a well-tuned .procmailrc
o I could save my nephew-in-law-in-law's huge pictures locally to
shell & "quartersize" them into submission. I mean, who wants
4000x4000 pixels of out-of-focus badly lit horribly composed photo
of a grand-niece. I mean, IRL she's an adorable kid & all, but
dozens of huge photos as described above is a bit too much.
o I could open up those "you have a hallmark card" spams & see that
embedded .exe. Can't hurt my linux box, but I can warn my wife
about them.
o I wasn't forwarding lots of huge mails since attaching pictures to
the old text-only system was too much of a PIA.
Ok, I've migrated to Thunderbird & 3.0 isn't too bad since I found the
external editor add-on so I can "emacs" my replies. I know I can
still forward email to shell if I jump thru all the hoops, but can I
look at my email on shell, delete the crap, fix the pictures, then pop
the rest?
Don't think so...let me know if I'm wrong.
Otherwise, cheerio all. Bob
--- bg...@xmission.com ---
Robert Geer
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:42:30 -0700, in xmission.general, Robert Geer
> <bg...@xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I've migrated to Thunderbird& 3.0 isn't too bad since I found the
>> external editor add-on so I can "emacs" my replies. I know I can
>> still forward email to shell if I jump thru all the hoops, but can I
>> look at my email on shell, delete the crap, fix the pictures, then pop
>> the rest?
>>
>> Don't think so...let me know if I'm wrong.
>
> mail.xmission.com, and should provide as much functionality once you work
> out the right commands (I preview and delete, but I've never tried to save
> an email).
>
Haven't yet...bmwright also suggested it. Need to figure out what sort
of magic IMAP could do for me. 'Nother one of those "roundtuit" things.
Thanks for the tip.
Daina Pettit
Yeah, I miss my procmail.
The web mail filters are awkward and slow to set up and change.
It was so easy to look through my potential spam on shell and kill it all at
once or forward it to my real mailbox. Not so anymore. :(
Also I could track my logs and actually see what was going on. Now I can't.
This is the first time that Xmission has actually taken away a capability.
So sad.
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Pete Ashdown
>Yeah, I miss my procmail.
>The web mail filters are awkward and slow to set up and change.
>It was so easy to look through my potential spam on shell and kill it all at
>once or forward it to my real mailbox. Not so anymore. :(
>Also I could track my logs and actually see what was going on. Now I can't.
>This is the first time that Xmission has actually taken away a capability.
>So sad.
The maintenance of shell email was a separate island outside of our main email
cluster. With larger and larger files being stuffed over SMTP, it was getting
harder and harder to do, for unfortunately, fewer and fewer customers that
actually used it.
I know this is little consolation, but I've forwarded my email to my own box
for over a decade so I could tweak my own setup. Come down and volunteer some
time at ERGS (http://ergsoc.org) (or your own local org Bob) and you can have
a capable server for free. I'll be happy to help anyone setup their own
Ubuntu server.
It also isn't the first time we've taken away services due to lack of customer
interest. Solaris shell, Roxen, Photo Galleries, Blog Hosting, POP's in New
Mexico, Nevada, and Idaho, Usenet binaries, FAX gateways, are a few that come
to mind. Things like shell and Usenet discussion pretty much stay around
because I demand (and usually maintain) them, not because they're selling
points to anyone. In spite of being a cranky *nix geek myself, I still have
to compromise when it comes to what XMission spends time on.
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Jason Earl
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:37:42 +0000 (UTC), in xmission.general, Pete Ashdown
> <pash...@xmission.com> wrote:
>
>>It also isn't the first time we've taken away services due to lack of
>>customer interest. Solaris shell, Roxen,
>
> FWIW, I feel that Solaris and Roxen were anything *but* "taken away",
> considering what replaced them (and this coming from a BSD weenie).
> IMO there's much more to like about XMission than to dislike; all you
> have to do is look around at the other players to appreciate just how
> good XMission really is.
Precisely. XMission is amazing. Sure there have been some changes, but
the changes have clearly been architected by a team with a great deal of
taste.
I could get my Internet at a lower price, but I wouldn't even dream of
switching.
Jason