Phillip Deackes wrote: > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hate to tell you but fetchmail is not more elegant. In fact, I > > find it > > quite archaic. I don't know about you, but there is something about > > pulling 2 > > accounts worth of mail, dumping them into a single local account and > > then have > > to filter it all out /and/ have to tell the mail client to use x > > account in y > > situation but not z that is quite inelegant. > > No, no, no!!! <hitting head against nearest wall> > > On my machine fetchmail fetches all mail from my ISP and hands it on to > Exim which, in turn, distributes it to users and mailfolders. The mail > so distributed is readable by any email app (MUA) because it is in a > standard form. That is neat. The 'Windows' solution is to have the email > app do the downloading. It is then filed away in a format unique to that > particular application. That is not neat. I don't understand what you > are saying about dumping the mail into a single local account. My system > collects mail for three different addresses and as soon as the mail is > received Exim delivers it to the appropriate user. Maybe you are not > using a MTA/MDA like Exim. > > All I do to instigate this is click one icon (I can have it happen > automatically if I wish). Friends who use Windows are amazed at how > elegant it is and how another user can log on and access their mail > only. They can set up their own .forward file to sort mail into their > choice of folders. > > I build computers as a side line, and I usually install Windows 98. Have > you tried setting Windows up in an easy-to-use form which allows a > family to have an email address each from the same ISP and only > see/download their own emails, making sure the correct address is shown > in the 'from' header? Outlook allows the use of 'accounts' but it is > still a nightmare to set up. If any user downloads mail it ends up in > the Inbox (or other folder) visible to the user who instigated the > download. Maybe I have not understood correctly the complexities of > setting up Outlook . . . . > > -- > Phillip Deackes
Perhaps this isn't the time or place to ask, but what about using IMAP instead of POP (on "client" machines, like a family computer, not "servers")? Unless you need to be disconnected from your email server (which I realize is needed in some situations) or have a tendency to exceed your server quota, this allows you to manipulate the mail directly on the server, without downloading it to your local box. Then, when you go to a different computer that's configured, you can still get to your mail because it's still on the server instead of downloaded on your first computer. I use IMAP on my office computer and home computer. Anything I want to keep I transfer to folders on one of the local computers. But this allows me to read my Inbox from anywhere I can setup an IMAP client. -- Smaller government. Less taxation. More freedom. Monde for Congress | http://www.monde2000.org
