Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> 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.
it would be basically the same using IMAP, maybe an overkill but very
elegant and flexible (you'd just replace 'home mail folders' by 'IMAP' -
fetchmail delivers to IMAP, mutt shows you IMAP folders). not 100% sure
how would that work in practice, I have it set up that way so it works
but I don't use mutt much so I don't know about various little quirks of
this set-up.
> > 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.
I think that even not so good IMAP support is better that almost
perfect file storage - the reason being that if IMAP support screws up
you are unlikely to loose email, but if file storage screws up it, well,
screws up. of course, in both cases you need to back up! so both
problems would be recoverable (you did back up, didn't you? :-).
but of course, in the end it's about what you like, how much you want
to spend on tinkering with system set-up (IMO cyrus is one of the most
annoying programs to set-up) etc.
erik
