Re: Mail without MUA?
Am Dienstag, 7. Januar 2014, 19:36:24 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:
> > However a MUA won't download emails from a MTA, but from a POP or IMAP
> > server.
>
> Yes, of course from the pop3 server of my provider.
>
> > What makes you think they were "downloaded".
>
> I think, they were downloaded, for two reasons. First, they are already
> there, when I start my MUA. Second, if I start my other computer, the mails
> I know they were existent, can no more be downloaded, when - and that is
> important now - I started my other debian computer, where I NOT started any
> MUA.
> > Also note that kmail is linked to akonadi which may act silently before
> > you start kmail.
>
> Hmm, so is akonadi downloading my mails? Thought, akonadi is only a database
> like mysql or postgresql. Am I wrong?
Akonadi also handles POP3 and IMAP access as well as SMTP.
If its running and accounts are configured to check for mail every x minutes
Akonadi will do just that in the background.
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