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Re: Which E-Mailer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Mon Nov 23 11:58:44 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 16:52:55 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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Ramon Gandia wrote:
> I want to be able to get my mail at EITHER location, but I
> want just one set of files,
"The" way to do this is to use an IMAP style interface rather than POP.
It leaves your mail on the server instead of moving it to your desktop.
(Of course there are other ways to jury rig this, but IMAP is probably
the least hassle and customization). Of course your server would have
to support it; if your server is a RedHat box, or if you can arrange for
your server to forward your mail to one of your redhat boxen which then
re-serves it to you, then that's all you need to do. The IMAP server
package that comes with RedHat does POP or IMAP based on the requests of
the client, which can switch back and forth between protocols more or
less at a whim.
> I have toyed with Netscape 3.04, (I love its interace),
It's been a long time since I've seen 3.04 running, but I'm on 4.5b
right now and like it fine (mostly -- caveats are probably for a
different post). The mail interface is much better than 4.05. I do not
know whether or not 3.04 would do IMAP. One problem I have had to work
around is that folders and mail filters do not persist across clients,
so whenever I use a new Netscape I have to re-build my preferences from
the client side. I also haven't had any luck deleting unused folders.
But the setup was a cakewalk.
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