On Sat,28.Mar.09, 08:49:21, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:02:24AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Alternatively you could use an IMAP server (dovecot for example) which > > makes the content of the mailstore available via the IMAP protocol. > > Most clients in use today should be able to use that, and if the client > > and server are on the same machine the speed penalty is not an issue. > > This has the added advantage that it will work over the network, be it > > local or internet. > > How can I avoid the need for authentication? With dovecot this basically ... > Pine has always supported a similar method (and indeed, uw-imapd also > works pre-authenticated). Sylpheed and Claws also support it, IIRC. Not > sure about other mailers. I never had any problems, I just pointed claws-mail to 'localhost' and it worked. Don't recall if I needed to store the username and password though... Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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