On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:18 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >well it would have been helpful to say from the outset. > > > >why are you leaving it on the server in the first place? > > > > > > I can't speak for askar, but I leave mail on the POP server for a few > days or until it is deleted from my inbox, so that I make sure I have a > backup copy somewhere. If my system dies and I have to do a recovery > from a backup made 2 days ago, I will not lose any incoming messages.
Get an old pc and set it up as a mail server, then get it via imap from there. > > -Richard > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
