On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:38:09PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/23/07 19:43, cga2000 wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:13:30AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> On 03/23/07 09:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Thanks, that's exactly what I want to do. I sometimes access my > >>> home email while at work via the web interface, and if my wife or kids > >>> are at home using the computer, fetchmail may download and delete it. > >>> Or I could download it at night and not have time to respond. I know > >>> that I could set fetchmail to not delete the messages and do it > >>> manually from the web interface, but I'd rather not do it that way. > >>> > >>> I hadn't seen a way to do this delayed deletion easily with > >>> fetchmail, although I may not have looked thoroughly. > >> Install Apache-ssl, Squirrelmail and imap-ssl. > >> > >> No, really. POP, being the Post Office Protocol, is not designed to > >> do what you want it to do. (You don't go to your PO box every hour > >> hours to *read* your mail, putting the open mail back in the PO box, > >> do you?) > > > > No indeed .. nor do I want the postal lady to pull over in front of my > > house every ten minutes. > > > > What's wrong with hitting "G" as in "G-imme-my-mail", the way I do it > > in mutt? > > Nothing. > > > Don't fancy a client-side daemon or cron job taking off necessarily at > > the wrong possible time .. hogging my CPU and internet when I'm in the > > middle of something else. > > > > Is there anything the matter with my approach to mail .. or e-mail .. > > getting to it in my own time .. when I feel sociable and when I can > > spare a few minutes to reply to it .. ?? > > Nope. *If* you are only going to read your email on that one host. > > However, if, like Judd mentioned, sometimes he needs to access his > email from other locations, then grabbing from POP every X minutes > would be a good idea.
imap server .. as long as it's accessible from the outside world.. ? or take his laptop along with him wherever he goes? Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
