Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I personally think it's a pity that mutt doesn't accomodate POP3 users
> a bit more. The fetchmail/procmail approach has one _major_ missing
> feature, it's not interactive and so can't allow the user to decide
> which mails to download from the POP3 server and, independently, which
> mails to delete from the server.
As long as I've been using mail on the Internet, I've grown accustomed
to mail just "showing up" in my account, without needing to worry about
how it got there. Fetchmail's background fetching of POP mail fits very
well into this model, whereby mail simply appears magically in my
mailbox. I'm not sure what it is that teaches people to think otherwise.
> This can only be provided by an MUA interactively and are very useful
> to anyone who reads mail on a POP3 server from different machines.
What you really want is IMAP, not POP3. In fact, Mutt supports IMAP
quite well in the development versions (1.1+), and it gives exactly the
sort of interactivity that you seek. That is, in fact, what the IMAP
protocol was designed for. The POP3 protocol was never designed to be
an interactive protocol at all.
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