Re: Email client programs
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Lev Lvovsky wrote:
>
> > why the insistence on fetchmail?
>
> Without fetchmail or something like it, if your network is down when you
> decide to run your mail client, you can't check your mail server for new
> messages. Even if the network is up, you have to wait while the client
> connects to the server and downloads all your new mail (which may take a
> while).
hmm...
since i run my mail srver on the same box as I run pine from, it's never
really been an issue...I guess though, that for a bigger setup, this would
indeed be a good idea...
-lev
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