On 2006-10-26 12:56:07 +0100, David Hart wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that mutt is not ideal for reading pop > accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when > setting up pop/imap servers.
AFAIK, POP is not a protocol to read mail (in the sense, as a real mailbox, with search and editing possibilities), but just to fetch mail. > For the small amount of mail I receive currently via pop I use > fetchmail dumped into the local mailspool. But what if you use several machines, so that your local mailspool can't be read from another machine (assume that a local IMAP server won't solve the problem either, due to restrictions)? In this case, fetching the mail and storing it to a remote IMAP mailbox (with the IMAP protocol) may be the only solution... -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
