Hi Terry
On 13/06/16 10:26, Terry Coles wrote:
Basically, I have three mailboxes (one for commercial comms, one for personal
(family, friends, etc) and one for the DLUG (so I could respond to the list
from Hotel rooms using only webmail, without the list server barfing at the
address I was using).
Those three mailboxes service around 100 aliases (simply put; one for each
recipient). That way, if I get a surfeit of SPAM, I can kill the alias
instead of the mailbox. This has worked well for years.
The downside is that this takes a bit of management. KMail helps because it
supports mailing lists very seamlessly and if I reply to an incoming message
the Reply To address will be the alias that the sender used not the mailbox
address, that the account uses. I couldn't get Thunderbird or Evolution to do
those things when I tried them.
Just tried sending myself emails to two different aliases. Hitting reply
uses the alias I sent to, so unless I'm missing something that seems OK.
Again, as Keith said, with IMAP all your messages stay on the mail
server and are accessible from any of the devices you are using. In the
typical case this will be your ISP IMAP server.
OK. I think I've got that. Is the end result any different from using POP3
and ticking 'Leave the messages on the server'?
Yes. IMAP is a proper client/server protocol. Your folder structure is
all on the server. Your drafts and sent folders are (if you wish, and no
reason not to) on the server. So you can flit from device to device and
everything is there in one place. e.g. you can work on a draft, continue
working on it from another device.
If running your own mail server, add in a Caldav/Carddav server like
Davical and your calendar and address book are also on the server and
accessible from any of your devices. Lightning and SOGO connector
add-ins for Thunderbird give client access to these.
Cheers
Tim
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