Re: Why I can't use gnus...

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David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:31:48 +0200 Mathias Gehrung wrote:
>
>> ... as my favourite mailreader. I enjoy using gnus as newsreader, and
>> so I thought it would be fine using it for mail too. So I spent some
>> days trying to get it to work with the several email-accounts I'm
>> using. While IMAP's working fine, I experienced several problems using
>> pop and smtp. Especially when using ssl or non-standard-ports
>> (i.e. gmail smtp).
>
> Why don't you use external programs for sending and fetching
> mails?  fetchmail and exim work pretty well for me.  IMHO
> thats not the job of the MUA anyway.

A lot of public IPs assigned by ISPs are banned by hosts of mail servers
because they have been used before by spammers. Thats one good reason
and why I moved to using gmails smtp servers.