Re: Which IMAP server to use?
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:29:08AM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> 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!
No, not currently. I've no idea whether this can be achieved or not, though I
suspect that with some reconfiguration and some scripts it probably can be done
fairly simply. I'ts not something that I use regularly as I spend 99% of the time
in X.
Matthew
>
> - 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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