On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > > why the insistence on fetchmail? > > Without fetchmail or something like it, if your network is down when you > decide to run your mail client, you can't check your mail server for new > messages. Even if the network is up, you have to wait while the client > connects to the server and downloads all your new mail (which may take a > while).
hmm... since i run my mail srver on the same box as I run pine from, it's never really been an issue...I guess though, that for a bigger setup, this would indeed be a good idea... -lev