1) What security precautions should I be taking now I can connect to the internet? Can anyone recommend some useful resources I should study? Any basic initial measures I should take?
If u have a 2.4 kernel, use Gnome and want a quick and dirty firewall setup (using iptables), then I'd highly recommend firestarter.
2) Is it worth reviewing the PPP and IP setups with a view to optimising the modem performance? or are any improvements likely to be marginal?
Marginal. If you look through the ALUG archives, there should be some e-mails I did regarding "MTU", lowering the MTU and MSS to about 570 can improve performance, albeit marginal. You notice it with pictures etc.
3) Can anyone recommend some mail clients that work with Gnome? There seem to be loads on Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Some guidance with narrowing down the list would be most helpful.
Sylpheed is my favourite for speed and simplicity.
4) I'd also like to migrate my existing M$ Outlook mailbox over to the new client. Has anyone ever done this? Is it possible?
Very probably, haven't done it myself tho. Maybe Evolution can do it? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:47:50 +0000 "Ricardo Campos" <corez23@linuxmail.org> wrote:
Can anyone recommend some mail clients that work with Gnome? There seem to be loads on Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Some guidance with narrowing down the list would be most helpful.
Sylpheed is my favourite for speed and simplicity.
Sylpheed is indeed! This is my 1st e-mail from my GNU/Linux system. Any advice about speel checking? Keith
I agree, I use sylpheed. It suits my tastes as an all round email client. But it doesnt allow you to import mail from M$ outlook. I do know KMail allows this, I have used it to do the very same thing, and there ARE tools on freshmeat.net somewhere to do it aswell, but if you want to use sylpheed, you will have to export all your mail to mbox format, and use sylpheed to import that. As for speel checking, sylpheed currently does not support this, and I imagine it will appear in a later version. You might want to check out Balsa as an email client, it uses ispell sufficient enough to give a good spell check. I cant remember if you can import outlook mailboxes though. John On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 01:57:35 +0000 Keith Watson <kpwatson@luna.co.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:47:50 +0000 "Ricardo Campos" <corez23@linuxmail.org> wrote:
Can anyone recommend some mail clients that work with Gnome? There seem to be loads on Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Some guidance with narrowing down the list would be most helpful.
Sylpheed is my favourite for speed and simplicity.
Sylpheed is indeed! This is my 1st e-mail from my GNU/Linux system.
Any advice about speel checking?
Keith
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 08:00:04 +0100 John Freeman <admin@layla-studios.co.uk> wrote:
As for speel checking, sylpheed currently does not support this, and I imagine it will appear in a later version.
Interesting - I can't find any option for spell checking and yet one of the "suggests" dependancies on the Debian package is the apsell spell checker. Strange.
You might want to check out Balsa as an email client, it uses ispell sufficient enough to give a good spell check. I cant remember if you can import outlook mailboxes though.
I don't remember such an option. I was using Balsa until this discussion and I'm now trying sylpheed. Sylpheed is much faster than Balsa and seems good in every other respect what little I have seen of it so far.
John
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 13:47:50 +0000 "Ricardo Campos" <corez23@linuxmail.org> wrote:
Sylpheed is my favourite for speed and simplicity.
Thanks for mentioning that - I even found it's part of Debian. I now have it installed and it is much faster than Balsa which I was previously using and it seems to be good in other respects too. Steve.
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