Erik Steffl wrote: > > Also, with fetchmail, you don't have to bother telling your mail client > > about your POP or IMAP server -- it's one less thing to configure if you > > provided that you want to download emails from IMAP which is not a > very good way to use IMAP. I guess it's desirable in some situations... > but often you might want to use it straight as it is or, if the network > connection is not good enough, use it in off-line mode. Unless you want > to consolidate all you accounts in one, then it makes sense to download > even IMAP mail.
That's exactly what I do. My personal mail accounts, work mail, everything ends up in my home mail folders, thanks to fetchmail. Meanwhile, mutt is configured to know what to put in my From: headers according to what folder I'm in when I send a mail. > but then it makes sense to run local IMAP server (for similar reasons > that it's desirable to use fetchmail to fetch email). That's a matter of taste, I think. If you have an email client that has really solid IMAP support, then that's reasonable. Craig
