Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 09:33:38 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimal skills Message-ID: <20200605093338.8a831d58.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CY4PR19MB0104175C432BC48E8A575693F9860@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> References: <CY4PR19MB0104540FF5E4FDF0B8D12370F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CY4PR19MB0104A2C03F4D66A1DA251A23F9880@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604005859.ca438474.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB0104C290121BF756D57B2DDBF9880@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604020051.0c02472d.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB0104DD86F8FE6446AD1BF327F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604074134.89eb6518.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB0104DC7541A2154B5C435EA7F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CY4PR19MB01041DACEFFEF08ADB096BC3F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CY4PR19MB0104A0D479219642A1853152F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <20200604225938.3baf5056ebd397f4a4acf81c@sohara.org> <CY4PR19MB0104540FF5E4FDF0B8D12370F9890@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CY4PR19MB0104175C432BC48E8A575693F9860@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 00:20:11 -0600, Brandon helsley wrote: > I see, but don't I need to configure sendmail or postfix to have > access to my mailboxes offline? Correct - this is not needed. The MUA manages this for you. You don't need to deal with sendmail or install postfix. MUAs like Thunderbird will make your mailboxes available offline, and only synchronize your changes (you delete a message in the MUA - the MUA tells the server to delete the message on the server, and deletes the locally cached file, for example). > Or can I just transfer email using mbox with thunderbird and have > it displayed on the command line without an MTA? offline. That doesn't sound useful. You could use fetchmail to get your messages via IMAP. This results in a mbox-formatted file, typically located in your local user's mail queue, /var/mail/<username>. >From this file, other mail programs can read, "incorporate from spool" - in fact, that's what I'm doing with fetchmail + Sylpheed. You still need your MUA configured for IMAP or SMTP to _send_ messages, though, so splitting those functions is not optimal. (Sidenote: I'm not doing this because I like it, but because I have changed ISPs and can no longer submit messages myself though their MX. If I setup a new system, I use IMAP only, from the MUA.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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