Re: mail in linux
Auke Jilderda wrote:
- The simple setup comprises some mailclient (e.g. KMail,
Mozilla/Netscape, Evolution, Mutt, and so on) fetch mails directly
from your POP3 and IMAP accounts and sending mail through your ISP's
mailserver.
this is what i had been doing. the problem is that all mail clients
fetch mails. many of them i delete. i would prefer to download only
headers, delete headers off the server and download only the messages i
need. any way to set it up?
- The more flexible setup is most commonly found in UNIX: fetchmail
fetching mail from various POP3 accounts and delivering it through the
local mailserver (in my case Exim).
my .fetchmailrc seems to be doing it properly. i have tried fetchmail
-c. it runs withour errors.
Each user can have its mail
filtered through procmail rules to segregate the mails into different
mailboxes.
i am new to procmail, but may be i can do some reading here and use it
You can then use a mailclient to access those mailboxes
can i use mozilla to read mail fetched by fetchmail?
and send your mails through your local mailserver.
i had been trying it without much success.
- You can take the mail setup one step further to gain location & client
independence by accessing your mailboxes through an IMAP server (in my
case courier-imap) on localhost. My reasons for wanting those two
capabilities is that I want a text based client (Mutt) when on the
road and without proper mouse and keyboard and a GUI client (KMail,
Ximian Evolution, SquirrelMail) when at my dockingstation.
this is interesting but way too ahead for me
Ofcourse I can send you my config files and a more detailed description
of my setup if you'd like.
Auke
well, anything that will help me is welcome
-sandip
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