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Hi,<br>
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Since my not-so-updated software versions became an issue in itself
(somehow I always get that) I wondered: Leave alone the unpleasant
feeling of knowing your computer *could* be exploited, are there any
real cases of attacks against personal, non-server Linux machines? The
need to protect a server or a shared machine is obvious. But when it
comes to a personal computer, is there any real life justification to
be anything else than completely indifferent to those risks? Or can we
in fact take a kibbutz approach of leaving the door open, knowing that
we may invite someone to break in, but that doesn't really happen?<br>
<br>
This is not a question about what can happen, but what really does.<br>
<br>
And just to wrap up the original subject: I was reluctant to try
mail-notification, because my mail filters move around the mails as
they arrive. So I suspected things would get messy using a tool that
apparently polls the mail box files directly.<br>
<br>
Anyhow, my solution ended up to be the Gnome Integration add on. I also
installed Mail Tweak, which among others allowed me to set HTML + Plain
text as the default outgoing mail format.<br>
<br>
Eli<br>
<br>
<br>
On 05/13/2012 08:40 PM, Oron Peled wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sunday, 13 בMay 2012 19:22:20 Eli Billauer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello all,
I've finally started working with Thunderbird under Linux (FC12, with
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<pre wrap="">Thunderbird 3.0.7). The old settings were migrated perfectly,
If your "new" one is 3.0.7, I am afraid to ask what was the old ;-)
$ rpm -q thunderbird
thunderbird-11.0.1-1.fc15.i686
As you can see I use a pretty old Fedora (F15, plan to upgrade directly
to F17, before F15 is EOL). Still, using a network-facing application
which did not get any security updates for several years, is...
(ok, let's call it brave, not to be offensive...)
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<pre wrap="">and all is working fine. Well, there's a thing I miss.
In Windows, there used to be an icon when new mail has arrived. This icon
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<pre wrap="">doesn't show up on Linux.
Obviously in Linux its a separate application (which is hopefully slimmer,
since it runs all the time).
IIRC, Gnome used to have a nice applet called "mail-notification":
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify">http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify</a>
This supported multiple accounts/mailboxes/protocols, etc.
I believe you can find it pre-packaged even for your pre-historic Fedora.
Cheers,
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