Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@gmail.com>]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:26 AM, jeff wrote:

> George A. Theall wrote:
> > Have you considered using fetchmail to grab the mail from the main  
> > box,
> > storing it centrally, and then running an IMAP server on that?
>
> I was trying to avoid running a server but might, if there's no other
> way.  Does Fetchmail work with a POP isp?  I have obviously never  
> run it.

Fetchmail works with POP or IMAP.

Have you considered using gmail for this?  Gmail lets you pickup via  
POP from up to 5 accounts.  You can read online in their web ui, pull  
from them via POP or IMAP too.

The best part?  someone else alluded to losing a few years worth of  
mail.  You're much less likely to lose several years of mail with it  
stored on Google's servers.  Data is replicated on at least 2 servers  
at all times.

They also offer Google Apps for free, which is essentially Gmail 
+Google Docs+Gtalk+some other stuff, branded to the domain of your  
choice.

I moved my domains over to using Google Apps, and have been glad I did  
it.  I waited until IMAP was available before migrating my primary  
email domain over, but it's been great since I did it.
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