On Friday 18 December 2015 10:19:46 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:31:45 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Friday 18 December 2015 05:32:01 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > Having just by implication been told by someone that only muggles, > > > lusers and/or dinosaurs use POP3, how many others of us will admit > > > to it? (For the avoidance of doubt, I use POP3.) > > > > > > I won't admit to being a muggle or a luser (who, me?), but I am > > > often prepared to admit to being a dinosaur. However, in this > > > case I actually don't agree with the premise. Feel free to tell > > > me that I am deluding myself and that I am indeed a dinosaur in > > > this as well. > > > > > > I just don't, for my use, like a lot of what IMAP does. > > > > > > Lisi > > > > You have company Lisi, OTOH I am pretty (81 now) ancient, but I hit > > two servers with fetchmail, using pop3 to fetch. I in fact like the > > idea/premise of IMAP, but have been repeatedly told that setting up > > the server so I can do email from any of my 5 machines, using this > > one as the server and one of the clients, is impossible. > > It isn't impossible, that's what I do here. I run a local Dovecot IMAP > server, on the same machine I have cron jobs that run getmail to pull > down mail from various accounts via POP3 and hand them over to > Dovecot. Dovecot then passes them through the Sieve plugin, which > filters them into appropriate folders. > > This mail is then accessed from any of my local machines via IMAP, so > I can use any client on any host and see the exact same folder-tree. > If this is what you want, then it's quite easy to set up. > > > The all > > maildir email corpus I have here apparently must be converted back > > to something resembling a mailfile, and some directories would > > exceed the reach of a 32 bit filesystem in size as they go back 13 > > years. > > I've got Dovecot set up to use Maildir, but I can't comment on the > directory size thing. > > > I was hoping that I could setup icedove to serve the kmail database > > to other machines, but have been told thats impossible. > > Icedove/Thunderbird is a mail client, not an IMAP or POP3 server, so > it can't do that. > > > I might also > > point out that the docs on icedove/imap are worefully inadequate for > > a user who has never dealt with it. I'd still try it, if I could > > find a tutorial that started out with "install this list of stuff" > > then configure this "stuff" so, and that "stuff" so, giving an > > educational background reason for each. > > > > I've not found such a tome. And folks seem to think I'm out of my > > mind to even try. That attitude on the part of what is supposed to > > be a helpful mailing list, is discouraging, for obvious reasons. > > If you want to try setting up a Dovecot server, there are lots of good > tutorials and other docs out there. I can probably dig up links to the > pages I used for setting up my system if you're interested. The wiki > at http://wiki.dovecot.org is very helpful. > > NOTE: I'm not saying this is a setup that is guaranteed to work well > for you, but I'm very happy with it. > > Petter
Do we have a utility that can pull that, including all sublinks so as to maintain the order and merge it into one printable file? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Some mill pix are at: Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/GO704-pix>
