On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:28:46AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:53:05AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:47:22PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there any free mail accounts (like hotmail etc.) that allow you to > > > download your mail so that you can read it with mutt say? Instead of > > > having to view it through the web browser when connected to the > > > internet. > > > How about doing it the other way around, access your isp's email account > > with a free email account? > > There are lots of reasons why this is, IMO, a less desirable solution, mostly > centering around the basic notion that, if the mail is on your machine, you > can access and filter it however you want instead of being tied to whatever > piece of drek interface the mail service provider gives you. In this > particular case, I suspect (based on the "when connected to the internet" > comment above) that mdevin is on a dialup link and doesn't want to have to > bring the link up and tie up a phone line while reading mail over that slow > link.
Yep, that is exactly right. I have a p90 with only 16Mb ram and a slow 28.8 pcmcia modem. Needless to say it doesn't run Netscape well and I find lynx shows pages differently. Also, where I work, there is only 1 phone line and I am on call. So I can't tie it up. What I do at present is connect, use fetchmail -> procmail -> mutt, then disconnect. I need only a couple of mins to download everything especially since I put limit 50000 in my fetchmailrc to prevent downloading messages with large attachments. Thanks for all the replies. When I get home I will check some of them out. One thing I don't understand though is: How do these free accounts that do provide pop3 access make money? I can understand that they can make money with advertising when you have to view your mail through a web browser, but how if you download messages to your home computer? Do they add advertisement headers to your mail or something bad like that?