Hi! On Fri Jul 18, 2003 at 10:49:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ad IMAP: A MUA has to support IMAP or IMAP would be another POP. IMAP > > mails belongs on the server side and not on the client. > > Well, isn't offlineimap something like a caching personal imap server? offlineimap is some sort of surrogate for the imap service. I have no problem with it. It's handy for notebook people ;-). But in my eyes the mails are still on the server. > > ad POP: Do you have a desktop and a notebook and only have POP available > > on your ISP's server? How do you manage to have all mails at your > > machine without messing with some scripts? The POP support makes sense > > because you can treat a POP server just like a mailbox. > > Fetchmail. OK, fetchmail fetches mail to a local mailbox and you can leave them on the server. This part of mutt is redundant with fetchmail. > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > smarthost using mailserver within 9.3 seconds (if you are fast ;-). > > Faster if you know the options by memory. That's true but memory is expensive ;-). So long Thomas -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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