From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 20 14:59:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA20294 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 14:59:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu (bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu [130.126.80.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20286 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 14:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradley@dunn.org) Received: from localhost (bradley@localhost) by bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA02689; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:54:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu: bradley owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:54:47 -0500 (EST) From: Bradley Dunn X-Sender: bradley@bh-box31337.csh.uiuc.edu To: Brian Handy cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Brian Handy wrote: > What I would *like* to do is be able to pop my mail down to wherever I'm > at and read it locally. But it seems like sorting my mail into the > various folders sets it up so POP won't work, the mail's going into the > wrong place now for this to work. IMAP was designed with mobile clients in mind. It is what you need. Pine works great with IMAP and multiple folders. Another good thing about IMAP is that you don't have to download a message if you can tell from the headers that don't want to read it. Bradley