On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:42:58AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >But that's what IMAP is for. POP is specifically designed as a > >temporary holding area (like a Post Office Box). > > > >> There are some way to read the mails from POP3 account without > >>download...maybe a gateway to IMAP...some idea? > > > >Who goes to the Post Office, reads their mail and then puts it > >back in the PO Box? POP is aptly named. > > Actually, I've been known to :-) [most of my mail goes to a PO Box > - usually I make a trip to pick it up, but there are times where > I'll be walking by the post office, take a quick look for anything > important, and leave the bulk of stuff to deal with at another time] >
Likewise. I also sometimes ignore mail I don't want to open. Recently, I found a large check hidden under one of those "someday later" mails. > re. electronic mail: I'm all IMAP now, but if you're stuck with a > POP only account, it's fairly common to read mail from multiple > machines (say a laptop, smartphone, and desktop), but want to > download and retain it on only one machine (e.g., one's desktop) > There was a great windows program for checking a POP3 box. POP3 ScanMail. It allowed one to check their box headers, read selected mails in plain text, download as a file, set all the flags for deletion, new, read, unread. The OP may be interested. It is still around, although I wonder what kind of development/support it has because it was neglected when I was on Win98. Of course, most of these Linux CLI clients we use now were originally used to browse POP3 boxes from shell accounts in the day. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110518022920.GA24285@Deneb.office