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Re: [PLUG] mail questions
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:46:55PM -0400, Joseph B. Welsh wrote:
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> Mike Leone wrote:
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> > GW supports POP3/imap, right? So just about any Linux mail program should work that understands pop3/imap. You won't get the scheduling and other features, but it sounds like you don't care about those.
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> Sort of. When using pop3, if you delete a message, it dosn't delete it
> out of your pop3 mail box. So you periodically have to go in through
> groupwise and delete your mail. The imap functionality isn't much much
> better. Mozilla mail client is the only mail client that recognizes
> their format. (tried KMAIL,StarOffice 5.2 and Evolution ( a new gnome
> mail client). It also dosn't support any of my biff mail checkers, all
> report errors when trying to see if i have new mail
What about using fetchmail and then letting your MUA of choice run on
your own machine, talking to $SPOOL (the file) and port 25 (your MTA
of choice).
pop3 is fully capable of deleting mail. Now, you may not have a fully
functional pop3 implementation, that's another story. But there is a
delete action. Just make sure you don't ask your pop client to leave
mail on the server.
--
Jeff Abrahamson
610/270-4845
abrahj01@molbio.sbphrd.com
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