Re: Linux Mail Client
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Monday, August 21, 2000, 10:09:55 AM, Phillip wrote:
> No, no, no!!! <hitting head against nearest wall>
Ah, yes, the sound of a fetchmail user trying to wrap his brain around a
new concept.
> On my machine fetchmail fetches all mail from my ISP and hands it on to
> Exim which, in turn, distributes it to users and mailfolders.
That would be the filtering part.
> The 'Windows' solution is to have the email app do the downloading. It is
> then filed away in a format unique to that particular application. That is
> not neat.
Assumption: That the Client doing the downloading cannot use standard
formats.
False.
To best address this point I will now quote The Princess Bride.
"The fireswamps!? We'll never survive!"
(Clients that download cannot store in a standard format!)
"Nonsense! You're only saying that because noone ever has."
> I don't understand what you are saying about dumping the mail into
> a single local account.
Uhm, because that is the only way to get to it with a single application?
> My system collects mail for three different addresses and as soon as the
> mail is received Exim delivers it to the appropriate user. Maybe you are not
> using a MTA/MDA like Exim.
Quite the contrary, I am using Exim. This isn't about the MTA or MDA,
this is about the MUA.
> All I do to instigate this is click one icon (I can have it happen
> automatically if I wish). Friends who use Windows are amazed at how elegant
> it is and how another user can log on and access their mail only. They can
> set up their own .forward file to sort mail into their choice of folders.
Yes, yes, preaching to the chior there, however, you have failed to
address the simple concept of accessing /two/ accounts from a /single/ client.
> I build computers as a side line, and I usually install Windows 98.
*yawn*
> Have you tried setting Windows up in an easy-to-use form which allows a
> family to have an email address each from the same ISP and only see/download
> their own emails, making sure the correct address is shown in the 'from'
> header?
PMMail2000, The Bat! both come to mind. Both of which I have used
extensively.
> If any user downloads mail it ends up in the Inbox (or other folder) visible
> to the user who instigated the download. Maybe I have not understood
> correctly the complexities of setting up Outlook . . . .
Right. So how does this differ from the fetchmail route?
I get mail from my home account and from my work account. With the two
above clients I have to separate accounts, complete filtering on both
accounts, my name, PGP keys, everything change. However, it is /ONE/
application.
So far all the Linux clients have taken the Eudora/Lookout!/Pegasus
approach to email. Either everything goes into a single inbox and you need to
filter out from there and set up "personalities" or you filter to completely
separate accounts and use completely separate programs to access them. To me
that is unacceptable.
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