On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:43:01 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:13:30AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/23/07 09:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > Thanks, that's exactly what I want to do. I sometimes access my > > > home email while at work via the web interface, and if my wife or kids > > > are at home using the computer, fetchmail may download and delete it. > > > Or I could download it at night and not have time to respond. I know > > > that I could set fetchmail to not delete the messages and do it > > > manually from the web interface, but I'd rather not do it that way. > > > > > > I hadn't seen a way to do this delayed deletion easily with > > > fetchmail, although I may not have looked thoroughly. > > > > Install Apache-ssl, Squirrelmail and imap-ssl. > > > > No, really. POP, being the Post Office Protocol, is not designed to > > do what you want it to do. (You don't go to your PO box every hour > > hours to *read* your mail, putting the open mail back in the PO box, > > do you?) > > No indeed .. nor do I want the postal lady to pull over in front of my > house every ten minutes. > am away > What's wrong with hitting "G" as in "G-imme-my-mail", the way I do it > in mutt? > > Don't fancy a client-side daemon or cron job taking off necessarily at > the wrong possible time .. hogging my CPU and internet when I'm in the > middle of something else. > > Is there anything the matter with my approach to mail .. or e-mail .. > getting to it in my own time .. when I feel sociable and when I can > spare a few minutes to reply to it .. ?? > > Or are you folks in positions where you must be notified within minutes > and respond likewise? I actually usually do POP manually (either Getmail or Sylpheed's built in POP client), but automating it could be useful if I am away for a while and I don't want to return to several thousand messages waiting to be downloaded. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
