On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:51:51PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
If you configure all your e-mail clients to leave the messages on the
server, you should be able to access the same e-mail server account
from multiple clients. Current clients using IMAP seem to work this
way (Thunderbird, Apple Mail).
When I used POP (POP3?) clients in the past (Outlook Express, Outlook,
Thunderbird), the clients defaulted to downloading and removing
messages from the server. I don't know if that was part of POP or a
setting in the client. If the latter, you might be able to tune your
POP clients to leave the messages on the server. This would enable
access from multiple clients.
A related issue is encryption on the incoming and outgoing
connections. Current clients and servers seem to use some variant of
TLS for both.
I do not like IMAP; POP is better for my needs.
Things now are working well using getmail to download from POP3 to the
maildir on my computer. And I have getmail set to mark for deletion
after download.
As to leaving messages on the server: until a few years ago I was
working in more than one location and thus was using web interface
clients, but when I switched ISP the download (using getmail) to get
the messages from the POP3 server to my machine took a number of
24-hour days. That was an expensive lesson. And I am glad to be back
with mutt, as opposed to web interface.
getmail has the ability to use the standard method of encryption for
the transfer.
