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4.2 Mailbox Configuration
Server: This is the name of the server which your mail lies on. Usually
something like 'mail.someplace.com'. New as of version 2.0 is the ability to
check the local machine for new mail. To use this feature, enter the server
name as the full path to the mail spool file. For example, for most systems,
this path will be '/var/spool/mail'. You need to make sure you have the opening
'/', this is how KNewMail determines if the address is local or remote. The
trailing '/' is optional.
Did you try putting in your local path? Anyway, I'd get an IMAP account or a
Webmail account so it doesn't matter which computer or OS you use....your
synchronized. I suggest getting a free account at mail.yahoo.com 3MB email
storage plus 5MB storage of files at briefcase.yahoo.com
The only free IMAP site I know if is still in beta I guess by Novell
http://email.about.com/internet/email/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://mail.myrealbox.com:82/
Then you can use Eudora 4 on Windows and Netscape Messenger on Linux for IMAP or
any other IMAP clients. If you only have say 5MB IMAP account it'll fill up
quickly...just move the messages you wish to save to a local folder. Just
remember that they are stored only on that computer's harddisk and won't be
accessible from another computer. I have 100MB IMAP account limit so I never
have to worry too much. I don't think KMail can do IMAP though.
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 01:49:29 +0100
David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Being new to the list I'm curious if one of you can answer me the
> following question: I use Eudora Pro 4 right now and like to access my
> mailboxes from both systems RedHat with KDE and W98, i properly mounted the
> win partition with the eudora on it, just that i can't get kmail to look
> for mailboxes in another place than in /hume/username/Mail. Is there a way
> to have KMail look out for mailboxes in any other place ? I tried to link
> the mailboxes to the Mail directory, but that didn't work.
> If there is no way, is there then a different mail program that works with
> KDE, can look for mailboxes in a specified dir and can read the eudora
> mbx-mailboxes ?
>
> I'd like to be able to run internet apps on both systems and access my
> emails on both systems for various reasons, so just wiping off windoze and
> switching to Linux doesn't help me.
>
> Thank you very much !
>
>
> Dave
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