On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:15:01AM +0700, Pankaj Mathur wrote:
> Now I come to the bitter part - I can see the mail - fine but the volume of 
> mail that keeps coming in our office is so much that I cannot afford to do 
> keep it on my hard disk ( one mailbox is about 500-800 Mb for back up done 
> every quarter and we have 13 such mailboxes!!!!).So it is just a matter of a 
> week or two at the most before I am out of hard disk space, deleting such 
> large volumes of incoming mail is also not a practical option for me. Please 
> ,somebody let me know if there is a mail client which can read mail from a 
> server (without downloading the message to my hard disk).

If you use IMAP, you won't download. Perhaps you're using POP. To see
if the server supports imap, telnet to the right port - look in /etc/services
and see if you get connection refused. If not, you can use imap.

        -Arun

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