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Re: Which IMAP server to use?



Does bash (or whatever shell you use) notify you when you have new mail? This is
important to me. If not, how can I enable or replace this functionality? It's
so convenient!

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@kaplowitz.org

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:22:49AM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I use courier-imap which I find is fine: my big debian-user mail box often
> swells to >2000 messages and it takes about 12 seconds to fetch them all.
> 
> I use postfix, delivering locally, the .forward file points to maildrop, which
> filters the emails into the correct mailboxes which I then access through mutt.
> 
> It works pretty well! ;-)
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> Matthew
> 
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:16:25PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> > Could someone recommend which IMAP server I should use? The only one I've
> > tried, the one associated with Pine - or maybe it was the UW one (or are they
> > the same? maybe) was too slow to use, and every other one I've seen does not
> > support standard UNIX mbox format. That, however, is OK with me if I can keep
> > the notification that bash gives me when I have new mail. I am under the
> > impression that this feature of bash only works for mbox format. How can I
> > resolve this and set up IMAP while preserving that feature?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > - Jimmy Kaplowitz
> > jimmy@kaplowitz.org
> > 
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