On Mon Feb14'22 08:34:39AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > From: Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:34:39 +1100 > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management > > On 13Feb2022 13:02, c. marlow <fed...@cwm030.com> wrote: > >On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:11:15 +1100 > >Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > >> I read my email with mutt (a terminal based mail reader). It can talk > >> directly to POP3 or IMAP if you want to leave your email upstream, > >> but I use it locally on my laptop. > > > > > >I've tried ALPINE before and I found it hard to use. > > > >But I kinda liked it though. > > > >I've always wanted to know, where does your POP email get stored if > >you're using a email client via the terminal? > > Depends on the client. The client inherently has to download any email > it doesn't have, so there will be some local storage. But in principle > it can leave the email at the server. > > POP3's not great for that - there's only one serverside mail folder, not > much state (I think you can mark things as read maybe - or maybe that > too is client side). _If_ you're keeping your email server side, IMAP is > a better choice. > > Most people using POP3 with mutt do not have mutt do the POP3 stuff - > they collect it regularly from the server with a tool like fetchmail or > getmail or my own "pop3" tool (which has a vast user base of 1, I > think)
I am tempted to send your IPO soaring. What/how does your pop3 tool work? It seems to have only 4 lines of code, but I have no idea what it can do:-) For the record, I use fetchmail on multiple accounts and then procmail. Three cheers for local email! Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
