On Mar 25, 2020, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-25 20:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > At the moment I am running neo-mutt on Debian 9. Once or twice a day > > I receive a HTML message, typically with a PDF file as an attachment. > > Picking out and viewing the links and attachments always is a hassle, > > and sometimes is rather difficult. > > > > Rather than hassle with mutt, I hoped to install an auxiliary mail > > client with GUI (such as Thunderbird) with which I could open such > > messages, view the links, and print the attachments. > > > > But Thunderbird is demanding the URLs of POP and SMPT servers, and I > > do not wish to allow Thunderbird to mess around with my mail, other > > than viewing specific messages. > > > > One approach would be to get a mail account strictly for this purpose, > > and set up a complete Thunderbird mail system using that account. > > > > But is there a better solution? > > > > RLH > > If you configure all your e-mail clients to leave the messages on the > server, you should be able to access the same e-mail server account from > multiple clients. Current clients using IMAP seem to work this way > (Thunderbird, Apple Mail). > > > When I used POP (POP3?) clients in the past (Outlook Express, Outlook, > Thunderbird), the clients defaulted to downloading and removing messages > from the server. I don't know if that was part of POP or a setting in the > client. If the latter, you might be able to tune your POP clients to > leave the messages on the server. This would enable access from > multiple clients. It is a property of POP itself. It's exactly like a post office (well, more specifically, a PO box) -- once you've removed your letters from the post office, they don't have a copy anymore. And, as I understand it, kind of the reason for it being named "Post Office Protocol". As you said, the correct approach would be utilizing IMAP -- however, whether or not there is IMAP access is entirely dependent on the server's configuration. Offhand I don't know of any that _only_ support POP3 these days; but there's always the chance of that. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
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