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Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?



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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/04/08 05:08, Dan H. wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
>>> Move all your email into an IMAP store.  Then you can use whatever
>>> MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA
>>> storage incompatibility.
>> You mean, locally?
> 
> IMAP is a standard "network" protocol.  Access it locally, across
> the room (that's how my wife reads email from her machine while the
> email sits on my box) or across the globe.  Isn't TCP/IP wonderful?
> 
> "Just" open the imaps port on your router and set up an SSL
> certificate if you want the rest of the world to be able to access
> your email.
> 

Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and
aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read
mails from any places where an internet connection is available.

Other merits over local IMAP include that you do not have to keep your
desktop machine on for all day long, which is a saving of the
environment, the probability of data loss on google clusters can be
considered smaller than that of a desktop disk fault, and gmail can also
be accessed using IMAP.

HTH

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Cheers,

Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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