Hi,
The way I understand about IMAP is that it is very similar to
news, and only the mail header is downloaded. And I have heard
that you can use IMAP to maintain all your mails on one central
server while accessing them from different computers.
So I have decided to give a try. But now, I am really confused.
If I use fetchmail to fetch mails from a IMAP server, how will
it different from fetching from a POP3 server? I mean it still
have to download the entire message which makes IMAP the same as
POP3.
If the above is true, does that mean I will have to use the
builtin support of IMAP from mutt? Can I use mutt to access both
my local emails and the emails stored on an IMAP server?
Really, I don't know how IMAP works. What I need though is that
I will fetch all my mails from different POP3 to one computer which
runs an IMAP daemon, and then access these mails from different
computers. And when I delete a msg, it deletes from the server,
otherwise it will stay...
Thanks for any help in advance.
Shao.
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