On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +0000 > Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > I might be wrong, but that's my understanding. > > So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their > > imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably > > not very welcome. > > You probably are wrong, it's more a case of your not using it's full > potential. I'm not really sure why you are doing it this way, I do > something simailar, but only because I'm interested in spam-filtering. > > Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server? > That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via > webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will > let you store your server passworks encrypted to a master-password, so > even root can't read them. The IMAP server is probably more reliable > too.
Are you saying I can make mutt read mail directly from the imap server? Without fetchmail? > If you want a local copy, or use a client with poor imap support, then > offlineimap is pretty good. > > > BTW personally I use getmail instead of fetchmail, I've not used > fetchmail much, but I've read a lot of bad things about it - some of > which are mentioned here: > > http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why interesting.. none of this is mentioned in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"