On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:15:30PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, February 13 at 10:33 PM, quoth sigi: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > >> Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like > >> fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmail, but fetchmail works > >> well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to > >> your computer and delete it from the server. You won't be able to read > >> email with the webmail frontend anymore; you'll have to use something > >> on your own computer. > > > > To comment on your last two sentences: that's not true. > > You mean it's not *necessarily* true; it is true if he sticks with the > default behavior. OK, you're right... but in my eyes you implied, he'd have to decide between downloading messages or keeping them on the server when using fetchmail, sorry. So: sure, for the keep-option you have to read the manpages... but which ordinary mutt-user doesn't have to search so many things to make things more usefull? ;)
sigi