On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:15:04PM -0700, joel wittenberg wrote:
> I read email from both my laptop and desktop machines (which are
> each in different email domains, ISPs, etc), and I do this fairly simply
> since my email server uses POP3 (I believe that something similar is
> possible using IMAP, but I don't know exactly how to do it since I don't
> have access to any mail servers which run IMAP). Just use fetchmail and
> supply the UIDL keyword - now each host running email will d/l its own
> copy of your mail (thus, both the laptop and the main PC will each have
> the full set of email). Of course, you'll have to d/l and mark as read
> email on 1 machine which you've already read on the other but that's
> pretty trivial and easy. And using fetchmail makes it easy to use
> procmail as well, which is a Good Thing.
this would work for getting mail, but you would still lose the sent mail
data, and would have to process all your mail twice... the only way to
achieve all this that I can think of, without scripts and such, is to use
IMAP... which is a whole other bag of tricks...
:)
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Dan Boger
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