On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jon Burchmore wrote: > > I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/sorting/filtering > > duties from the Email client (MUA). > > You can use fetchmail to download all your email from multiple accounts. > > Then you use smail/procmail or exim to sort and deliver it locally. > > Then, all your MUA has to do is be able to read from different folders. > > Unfortunately, this would eliminate the major advantage of IMAP. I read > my mail from two different locations (home and work) and up to 5 different > computers. Storing the mail locally really isn't an option, although I > suppose I could make *copies* of it instead of moving it from the mailserver > to a local machine.
Isn't that basically what IMAP does? There is an fetchmail option to leave mail on each or some of the mailservers. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>
