On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:42:49AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > If we all misunderstood and you have multiple instances of mutt running and > > want to be able to access your mail from any of them then use POP and leave > > the email on the server. Are you forced to use IMAP? > > > I currently read my E-Mails (at different times, not simultaneously) > using mutt on:- > > The desktop Linux system which is also where Postfix runs to > receive my E-Mail. > > My laptop running Linux, sometimes on the LAN with the above > desktop, sometimes out and about connected by someone's home WiFi > or a 3G connection. > > Rarely, but occasionally, on someone else's system. > > The reason I'd use IMAP rather than POP3 is that I have mail filtering > running on the desktop server. There's a custom script that delivers > mailing list E-Mails (in particular) to separate mailboxes. I want to > be able to see these when I read my E-Mail remotely. Thus I'd simply > do everything remotely using IMAP, not store anything on the laptop.
If you paint yourself into a corner by not understanding what you are doing it is much harder for anybody to answer your questions. It seems you are hell-bent on misunderstanding things and have already decided on an incorrect unnecessarily, complicated conclusion. Mail filtering works independent of POP or IMAP. Delivery to spool is independent of POP or IMAP. The only practical difference between POP and IMAP is at the client level. IMAP syncs in real time. If you delete a message in IMAP it is gone from the server. If you use POP you can set things up so that messages are left on the server for you to access from other clients. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
