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Re: Which E-Mailer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter D. Harris)
Mon Nov 23 10:03:58 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:02:08 -0500
From: "Walter D. Harris" <harrisw@harrel.com>
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On Mon Nov 23 1998 at 00:43, Ramon Gandia wrote:
> I want to be able to get my mail at EITHER location, but I
> want just one set of files, folders, mailboxes, whatever at
> only ONE location (home). This is because I do not want to
> have one set of mail messages in one location, and another
> set in the other box. It is a pain, specially when running
> a business, to have mail get udesychronicitated like that.
> (word invented here).
This sounds like a job for the imap protocol. Imap allows using folders
remotely. One can read, update, file, etc, without moving the mail to a
local mailbox.
Many mail readers support imap. I have used it from the "xfmail" mailer
(http://Burka.NetVision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html), which I recommend.
I switched to xfmail from exmh at home because it supported more mail
configurations.
The imap server daemin "imapd" must be running on the mail host
machine. It can be found in the imap-4.1.final-1 rpm, supplied with Red
Hat Linux.
Happy Linuxing,
Walter
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