Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/06/07 21:54, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote: > >>> Stephen wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron > >> Johnson wrote: > >>>>> On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote: > >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael > >> Pobega wrote: > >>>>>>> John K Masters wrote: > >> [snip] > >>>> > >>> Eh, I tried Mutt and I really don't have the patience to work with > >>> something like that. Plus I archive all of my mail, so having > Icedove do > >>> it for me automatically makes things so much easier in the end. > >>> Maybe I'll try out Mutt at some future date or when I'm forced to > use it > >>> (Since I know how to configure it, should X die I can still talk > on the > >>> mailing list), otherwise I really have no need to force myself to use > >>> it. I don't mind not getting geek creds. > >> Divorcing the task of *getting* mail from *reading* mail is a very > >> useful endeavor, though. For example, you upgrade your system > >> tonight and it borks X, or even Icedove. Then what? You're boned. > >> Sure, all your email is in standard mbox files, but in Icedove > >> directory trees. Most aggravating to import into Mutt for the 3 > >> days that X is hosed. > >> > >> I have fetchmail, postfix & maildrop to grab and filter mails into > >> IMAP folders, and use courier-imap to fetch them. Both Icedove and > >> Mutt (and Sylpheed and Evolution and KMail, etc) all understand > >> IMAP. So, if something borks X (or if I go away for the weekend), > >> I'm still getting my mail and can read it from the console. > >> > >> Geeky, yes, but practical. My wife's box runs XP, but my box grabs > >> and filters her email. Win-Tbird reads it from across the LAN. > >> > > Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with one another? > > I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and Icedove if possible. Any > > chance you have a URL to a walkthrough/HowTo on how to do something like > > that? > > No, no, no. > > ONE mail folder tree shared by *all* MUAs. That is the beauty of > the IMAP protocol. > > And mail delivered by a cron job. > > That's pretty cool. I wish I had the patience to do something like that, but I really don't. Maybe when I get unlazy I'll get an IMAP going between Mutt and Icedove, if that's even possible.
Do you have any links to some of the documentation you used? I can't find good documentation on doing something like this anywhere online. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]