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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:25:28 +0000
From: Bernard Peek 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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In message <87wt1xgm4a.fsf@geemail.com>, Hadron 
 writes


>> It also supports similar filtering for email. It's possible to set up
>> a kill rule that will reject emails from a specific individual or
>> domain, or by matching arbitrary regexps. So for instance I have a
>> rejection rule set up to automatically reject any mail with a .EXE
>> file as an attachment.
>
>gnus does all this and more. It takes some learning though - its not for
>the faint hearted.

TP seems quite intuitive to me, and I've used it for small business 
networks where most of the users were quite inexperienced computer 
users. For my own purposes I'm reasonably happy to spend some time 
configuring a program. But email is a business-critical service so I 
want any program that handles my mail to be bombproof and idiot-proof. 
Programs with large numbers of obscure and rarely used optional settings 
are not, IMHO, a good idea.



-- 
Bernard Peek
back in search of cognoscenti
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