From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 20 16:53:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA26571 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:53:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp10.portal.net.au [202.12.71.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA26566 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01542; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:17:50 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199712210047.LAA01542@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Brian Handy cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:24:18 -0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:17:49 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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