On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:43:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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.
Yes, that's true and it's one reason mutt is not ideal for the purpose. Mutt can be configured to pull mail from pop down into a local folder for offline use but needs a little bit extra config with perhaps folder-hooks or macros to use with more than one account. But, I think, this goes against the way that mutt was designed to be used and it's not the way I use it on a daily basis. I posted the previous method because I happen to have similar lines commented out in my ~/.muttrc as that is what I occasionally use for testing purposes. > > 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... I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly by SMTP to the machine which has my personal mail store. Do a 'dig tonix.org mx' (my domain) and you'll get jynn.tonix.org as the first mx which is the box I'm sitting at right now. When I'm away from home I ssh into my home box to get mail. If that became a problem (because, perhaps, of firewall rules), I'd probably setup ssh to listen on port 80 as a first choice but, imap would definitely be an option. -- David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
