From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 22:11:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C12216A41F for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:11:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B293A43D45 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:11:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j74MBnlS012602 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:11:49 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.4.11] (shiina.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.11]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j74MBmh4011149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:11:48 -0700 Message-ID: <42F292A3.5090801@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:11:47 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: getting messages from remote mail box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:11:50 -0000 Leonard Zettel wrote: > All my incoming mail goes to a unix box which > I access over the internet using kmail. > > I also occasionally get at it using pine. > > Here is my problem: after I use pine > kmail will no longer recognize the presence > of any message that was there when pine > looked at them. How do i reset the message status > so that kmail can handle them as usual? > > Thanks > -LenZ- > > The issue is most likely because your email account is POP[3] based. Either switch over to IMAP, forward to a specific address that does have IMAP capabilities, or use fetchmail to fetch your mail and then setup your clients to read from the flat file for your mail/setup a server that serves it strictly to localhost. For more information about POP3 and IMAP, see -Garrett