Kent West wrote: >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.
Very few people are in a position to tell their employer to get a new mail-server I realise that a great number of those people who can do this are on this list. a great number of these issues DO go away under IMAP but when i kicked this ungodly thread off last week i did say that i needed a solution for POP. and i know i'm not alone. when/if i triumph in my raging battles with the potato install i will try using fetchmail! John
