-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/07 08:30, cga2000 wrote: > 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?
IMAP-ssl server open to the outside world. > Thanks, > cga > > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGBSRTS9HxQb37XmcRAn8YAJ9D6rmpr/iG505B8W2pVGApNO2fCwCfVmhq RC8LvklRM54ku3j/HCTVdKg= =0qfH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
