* Nicolas Williams <nicolas.willi...@oracle.com> [09-10-10 00:19]: > But for some use cases external programs like getmail, fetchmail and > procmail all fall short. For example, I've given up on fetchmail > because it dropped 30K messages once (from a 100K msg folder). I've > given up on getmail because it doesn't preserve message flags, so if > I've an IMAP Inbox that I want to leave a few days' worth of messages at > a time for accessing from multiple MUAs (say, mobiles), then I can't use > getmail to later move those off the IMAP server. (No, the getmail > maintainer was not interested in patches to preserve message > status/flags.) If I use IMAP, can't or don't leave mail on the server, > but can use neither getmail nor fetchmail then how am I to use procmail?
simple. Use mutt as you do now and access your mail from "outside" via ssh. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
