From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 12:01:00 2004 Return-Path: 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 53D7216A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:01:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outmx001.isp.belgacom.be (outmx001.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B300943D4C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:00:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geert@lori.mine.nu) Received: from outmx001.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id i7OC0sBv003846 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:00:54 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from lori.mine.nu (240-151.244.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.244.151.240]) with ESMTP id i7OC0q47003828; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:00:52 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: by lori.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 68591684; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:00:51 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx To: Sean Murphy Message-ID: <20040824120051.GA42087@lori.mine.nu> References: <6.1.1.1.1.20040823160549.019f9ec0@muse.calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.1.20040823160549.019f9ec0@muse.calarts.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-GPG-Key: http://lori.mine.nu/gnupgkey.asc X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/766C1E92 X-Accept-Language: nl,en cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Mail Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:01:00 -0000 On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > Without using "leave mail on server" or "leave mail on server for x days" > is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 > to put it back so I can access it from a different computer. Possibly ftp > it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or > mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... > would that throw it back on the server? > > FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail You could use UIDL on your pop3-client (e.g. fetchmail). It keeps a database of which mails have been downloaded already (using server-side checksums), and that way you could leave all your mail on one central server, downloading it on different clients (and downloading every mail only once per client). Your .fetchmailrc would look something like this: poll with protocol POP3 options uidl user there with password is here options keep GH