Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-25 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600 David Kelly wrote: > > Mail.app, Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving > up the ability to do mail on your console. > ... > When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of > the same mail repository at the same time. mut

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:27:32PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some > mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap > into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to > my local

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread David Kelly
On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my > mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is > this where

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan > wrote: > > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which > is > > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all > my > > mail. For read

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my > mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is > this

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
n Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/12/2010 03:27, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some > > mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap > > into my

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/12/2010 03:27, Chris Brennan wrote: > Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some > mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap > into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to > my local machine to read my m

fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to my local machine to read my mail. I realize I can pop/imap directly into my mai