On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:54:17PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> %
> % Basically what I would like to see is POP support in mutt to be on the
> % line of IMAP support, polling of mailhost and delivering it to an INBOX
> % or something similiar.
>
> I can imagine that... Of course, it gets back to the whole war over
> which is a download method and which is a folder implementation...
>
Yes, many moons ago, I was promoting the way that a number of other
Unix MUAs handle POP3 mail. They keep a local record of mail in the
POP3 mailbox (not copies of the mail messages themselves) and thus you
can treat the POP3 mailbox in much the same way as a single IMAP folder,
leaving the mail you want to keep on the server and deleting anything you
don't want. New mail is marked as such so you can view it. This makes
a mix of several different POP3 mailboxes and, maybe, some IMAP folders
very easy to manage from a single 'view' in your MUA.
Attempting to use fetchmail or anything like it entirely destroys this
approach. With the POP3 mailboxes it's really only possible to do
this in the MUA - unless you envisage an intermediary of some sort
which makes POP3 mailboxes look like IMAP4 ones from the MUA's point
of view.
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