> From: Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:31:06PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... > > I'd like to have a local POP server that, when queried, queries another > > POP server and looks at a local mail file, and then serves the combined > > set of messages to the POP client. > ... > Why not ISP->fetchmail->exim->[procmail->~/mail->]local IMAP->netscape?
Is that fetchmail for everything or fetchmail downloading just my mailing-list messages? If that's for everything, it doesn't quite do what I want: I don't want to fetch the non-mailing-list messages unless I'm fetching them into Netscape. I don't think I mentioned another constraint: My home machine is not on line all the time, so I can't use a POP server there to be able to check mail from elsewhere (at any time). That's why I want to leave some mail on my ISP's machine. Going through several servers would be okay, but I want the non-mailing-list messages to remain on my ISP's POP server, accessible from work (or anywhere), until I retrieve them from home. > I thought netscape 4 had IMAP support, doesn't it? Yes, I think so. ... > > 4. > > Here's what I think I'd like to happen: > > > > - I keep separating high-volume mail using my .forward file on my ISP's > > machine. > > > > - I keep downloading the high-volume mail separately. > > > > - When I retrieve mail using Netscape at home, it connects to a special, > > local POP server. > > > > - The local POP server queries my ISP's POP server, _and_ looks at > > the downloaded mail file, and presents the _combined_ set of > > messages to Netscape. > > Let fetchmail regurlary fetch that mail from ISP to your local box, > perhaps via cron. But I don't want non-list message to be removed from ISP's POP server until I request them from home. ... > > > > Is there any safe way to asynchronously append messages to a Netscape > > mail file? ... > > When you use netscape to read your mail, it connects to local POP, > "downloads" the messages and then displays them. So netscape is always > operating on a copy of what the POP server actually got. There can be > no lock problems as far as netscape is concerned, as I understand > things. Actually, I wasn't talking about the messages that Netscape would download using POP. I was talking about the mailing-list-messages that I had separated into a separate file on my ISP's machine and had downloaded (via FTP), and trying to append such files to a Netscape mail folder file. Doing so would probably require some locking in case a cron-based FTP download happened when I was using Netscape to read mail in that folder). > > Can fetchmail download only certain messages? (Maybe I could retrieve > > the mailing-list messages with cron, and leave the remainder there, if > > there's a (reliable) way to get list messages back into Netscape.) > > What is the point in not having all mail transfered immediately (or by > cron/fetcmail) to your local POP? To keep it accessible from anywhere on the Internet until I read it, given that my home machine is not connected at all times. Thanks for answering. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
