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FW: Which E-Mailer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Richardson)
Tue Nov 24 14:56:13 1998
From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:03:35 -0000
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From: Walter D. Harris [SMTP:harrisw@harrel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 2:12 PM
To: brichardson@lineone.net
Subject: Re: Which E-Mailer?
On 23-Nov-98 brichardson@lineone.net wrote:
> This would also presumably be a good solution for a stand-alone
> PC if you wanted to use more than one e-mail client (different
> clients for different jobs) but wanted to have just one set of
> mail folders? I ask as a Linux e-mailing neophyte: I got the
> impression, looking at sendmail/fetchmail and exmh, that most
> e-mail clients move mail out of the central mail pool into
> their own mail folders.
The "old way" using the POP protocol (fetchmail) is to transfer from a remote
server to the local system, then manipulate. Of course, if you download to a
laptop from a hotel room, it's no longer accessible from your office system when
you return to the office, etc. The newer way, with IMAP, is designed to avoid
those limitations. Transferring first is no longer needed.
Newer mailers support this. Imap folders are treated just like "their own"
folders. No need to make new ones. It's rather like NFS for mail.
> Are there any negative issues/performance hits when running
> imapd on a standalone PC?
Don't know. However, it is definitely much faster than exporting the DISPLAY
variable and running the mailer over an X-Window link.
Happy Linuxing,
Walter
P.S. I am sending this directly to you because my work link to Red Hat List
has problems. (No, it doesn't use imap ;) Feel free to repost and comment if
you wish.
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