If you have dialup access with many users with different pop accounts (like my family once), you can grab everybody's mail as soon as anyone connects with ppp. That way, nobody has to dial in to check mail--it's already grabbed.
Also, you can grab pop mail from multiple servers if you're like the typical guy and have 5+ mail addresses. --Mike Steve Lamb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wednesday, August 16, 2000, 6:30:22 PM, John wrote: > > i do appreciate that the fetchmail approach is more elegant.. but it is more > > daunting too. > > Hate to tell you but fetchmail is not more elegant. In fact, I find it > quite archaic. I don't know about you, but there is something about pulling 2 > accounts worth of mail, dumping them into a single local account and then have > to filter it all out /and/ have to tell the mail client to use x account in y > situation but not z that is quite inelegant. > > - -- > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your > ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. > - > -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 6.5i > > iQA/AwUBOaFS7Xpf7K2LbpnFEQKiXgCdH69WZimb3Xs9R1D7KxJc7T7jwyYAoKyy > IDdi4LTPs0uQFmlapNgTd0HI > =BNDI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
