Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-25 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: Mail.app, Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving up the ability to do mail on your console. ... When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of the same mail repository at the

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:27:32PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to my local

fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to my local machine to read my mail. I realize I can pop/imap directly into my

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/12/2010 03:27, Chris Brennan wrote: Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to my local machine to read my

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
n Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 24/12/2010 03:27, Chris Brennan wrote: Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap into my mail

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread David Kelly
On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is this where