Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/06/07 21:54, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >>> Stephen wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron
> >> Johnson wrote:
> >>>>> On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael
> >> Pobega wrote:
> >>>>>>> John K Masters wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>>>
> >>> Eh, I tried Mutt and I really don't have the patience to work with
> >>> something like that. Plus I archive all of my mail, so having
> Icedove do
> >>> it for me automatically makes things so much easier in the end.
> >>> Maybe I'll try out Mutt at some future date or when I'm forced to
> use it
> >>> (Since I know how to configure it, should X die I can still talk
> on the
> >>> mailing list), otherwise I really have no need to force myself to use
> >>> it. I don't mind not getting geek creds.
> >> Divorcing the task of *getting* mail from *reading* mail is a very
> >> useful endeavor, though. For example, you upgrade your system
> >> tonight and it borks X, or even Icedove. Then what? You're boned.
> >> Sure, all your email is in standard mbox files, but in Icedove
> >> directory trees. Most aggravating to import into Mutt for the 3
> >> days that X is hosed.
> >>
> >> I have fetchmail, postfix & maildrop to grab and filter mails into
> >> IMAP folders, and use courier-imap to fetch them. Both Icedove and
> >> Mutt (and Sylpheed and Evolution and KMail, etc) all understand
> >> IMAP. So, if something borks X (or if I go away for the weekend),
> >> I'm still getting my mail and can read it from the console.
> >>
> >> Geeky, yes, but practical. My wife's box runs XP, but my box grabs
> >> and filters her email. Win-Tbird reads it from across the LAN.
> >>
> > Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with one another?
> > I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and Icedove if possible. Any
> > chance you have a URL to a walkthrough/HowTo on how to do something like
> > that?
>
> No, no, no.
>
> ONE mail folder tree shared by *all* MUAs. That is the beauty of
> the IMAP protocol.
>
> And mail delivered by a cron job.
>
>
That's pretty cool. I wish I had the patience to do something like that,
but I really don't. Maybe when I get unlazy I'll get an IMAP going
between Mutt and Icedove, if that's even possible.
Do you have any links to some of the documentation you used? I can't
find good documentation on doing something like this anywhere online.
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