Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:49:25 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Andy Coates <andy@friends-tv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine, POP3, and Maildirs.. Help! Message-ID: <20000413234925.A16227@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <048101bfa56d$472468d0$0100a8c0@blade>; from andy@friends-tv.net on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:25:30PM %2B0100 References: <03f401bfa540$e9078f60$0100a8c0@blade> <20000413223356.A2995@theory5.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <048101bfa56d$472468d0$0100a8c0@blade>
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> > Try using some other POP client? Or fetchmail? Or IMAP rather than > > POP (Pine can handle imap directly, and so can many other mail > > clients)? With qmail you can have users set up multiple mailboxes > > corresponding to different aliases on the server, and you can access > > all these mailboxes from the local machine with Pine using imap. > > Is that what you want? > > Sounds like the IMAP thing could be worth using - I hear Pine can use IMAP, > does that need any modifications for that to work with maildirs too? I'll > have to find some decent IMAP faq and see what its all about. Anyone > recommend any? With IMAP your mail stays on the server: it doesn't get downloaded to the local machine. So you don't have any mailboxes locally. On the server, qmail can be configured to use either maildirs or traditional mailboxes. I think some imap servers can handle maildirs, but I'm not sure; but if you set up the server to store mail in mailboxes there shouldn't be a problem. > The idea of the user accessing all the mailboxes from the local machine is > no big deal, as I just had to make sure "one" account could be read so I > could send system messages / problems if needed. The idea of multiple pop > boxes is mainly for friends/customers/clients of the user, so he wouldn't > need to check them anyway. Sorry I haven't used pop much, so I don't know whether you can set up multiple pop boxes this way without qmail-pop3d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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