-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/07 21:54, Michael Pobega wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote: >>> Stephen wrote: >>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron >> Johnson wrote: >>>>> On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael >> Pobega wrote: >>>>>>> John K Masters wrote: >> [snip] >>>> >>> Eh, I tried Mutt and I really don't have the patience to work with >>> something like that. Plus I archive all of my mail, so having Icedove do >>> it for me automatically makes things so much easier in the end. >>> Maybe I'll try out Mutt at some future date or when I'm forced to use it >>> (Since I know how to configure it, should X die I can still talk on the >>> mailing list), otherwise I really have no need to force myself to use >>> it. I don't mind not getting geek creds. >> Divorcing the task of *getting* mail from *reading* mail is a very >> useful endeavor, though. For example, you upgrade your system >> tonight and it borks X, or even Icedove. Then what? You're boned. >> Sure, all your email is in standard mbox files, but in Icedove >> directory trees. Most aggravating to import into Mutt for the 3 >> days that X is hosed. >> >> I have fetchmail, postfix & maildrop to grab and filter mails into >> IMAP folders, and use courier-imap to fetch them. Both Icedove and >> Mutt (and Sylpheed and Evolution and KMail, etc) all understand >> IMAP. So, if something borks X (or if I go away for the weekend), >> I'm still getting my mail and can read it from the console. >> >> Geeky, yes, but practical. My wife's box runs XP, but my box grabs >> and filters her email. Win-Tbird reads it from across the LAN. >> > Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with one another? > I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and Icedove if possible. Any > chance you have a URL to a walkthrough/HowTo on how to do something like > that?
No, no, no. ONE mail folder tree shared by *all* MUAs. That is the beauty of the IMAP protocol. And mail delivered by a cron job. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFyU4xS9HxQb37XmcRAsxOAKCnLYkiXedWpNacsQKgpg8tUpi1YACgil/t gbkPAd3NyMYKsLT3GckY1ms= =cOyd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
