Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)
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On 02/06/07 22:30, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>> "an IMAP going between Mutt and Icedove"?
>>
>> Stop thinking that IMAP synchronizes mail folders!!!!!
>>
> Isn't that basically what it does?
No.
> It lets you manipulate the mail on
> the server without actually /transferring/ them.
Yes!
All the email stays on the server. You can use any MUA you please
to view/delete the messages, but they stay on the server.
> I've never looked into
> IMAP before though, I think I'm going to try to work with it soon
> though; Sounds interesting (Especially since soon I'll be getting a
> mobile client with e-mailing abilities).
You'll want to ensure that the mobile client speaks IMAP.
Or install Apache, Squirrelmail & the relevant SSL modules on your
server, and read your email thru your mobile web browser.
>>> 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.
>> http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/
>>
>> There are Debian packages for all this stuff, so it's really easy.
> Thanks for the link, very helpful.
>
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