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From: Hadron 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:55:09 +0100
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Bernard Peek  writes:

> 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.

If an email client which doesn't really offer that much over other types
is so important I think you will probably find Linux too flexible for
your limited needs. Stick with Windows and Turnpike - you make a great
couple :-;
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