On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote: > > So? Where's the advantage? My mail program fetches mail *for me* from > my ISP's POP server, passes it thru any filter (let it be > spamassassin), then writes it to separate folders depending on > basically anything. Fetchmail, MTA, MDA avoided, whereas the same > purpose achieved. Easier.
Yes, in many cases it is, but the "separate tools" approach is more flexible and more powerful. Initially moved my mail retrieval+sorting outside the GUI client because it couldn't download mail in a separate thread. Then I also moved the sending for similar reasons. The added benefit is that switching mail clients is much easier now: SMTP server: localhost IMAP server: localhost and I'm done. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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