Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:17:49 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Question Message-ID: <199712210047.LAA01542@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:24:18 -0800." <Pine.OSF.3.96.971220112011.18680B-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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> 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.
Sort your mail when it arrives on your laptop. POP it off the
system(s) that it accumulates on.
There was a major flamefest about this a little while back, with
various rampant IMAP advocates shouting about how their vaporware
standard was the best thing since sliced cheese.
Personally I prefer a solution that works right now. 8)
> I *know* you people have got to be sorting your mail...anyone offer up a
> pointer for how best to deal with this? (I'm POP-impaired, so if there's
> some feature of POP that will allow this to work for me -- be able to pop
> random folders down to my client -- I'd like to have a suitable RTFM
> directed at me...)
This .fetchmailrc (and obviously fetchmail) results in mail from the
remote hosts being delivered to me, locally on my laptop such that I
can reply to it as thought it had come here first. I start fetchmail
in the background when I log in, so it's as though mail for me was
being delivered whenever I'm connected, regardless of where that might
be. You would probably use procmail as your local delivery agent,
rather than mail.local as I do, in order to keep your current sorting
configuration.
defaults proto APOP
fetchall
mda "/usr/libexec/mail.local %s"
# Collect from smith.net.au :
poll mail.smith.net.au username mike password XXXXX
# Get mail from hub.freebsd.org, I'm msmith there but mike here.
poll hub.freebsd.org username msmith is mike password XXXXX
# mail from cain, as for hub above.
poll cain.gsoft.com.au username msmith is mike password XXXXX
mike
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