Currently, I just keep my mail on one machine.  Everything is forwarded to the
main machine.  Then I read it via ssh and mutt.  I'm sure the same could work
for a fancy prog like KMail.  

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:18:38PM -0500, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> I've been trying to come up with a good solution to this for a while. 
> Basically the situation is this. I have a desktop which acts as my server. 
> In the past that was the only place I read mail, so use Kmail to POP my 
> mail from school.
> 
> Now I have a laptop and would like to be able to have easy access from it 
> and any other computer I happen to use. IMAP seems like the way to go. He 
> is the problem. Kmail is always running, that is how new mail gets 
> downloaded, but after accessing a folder through IMAP, kmail's index file 
> gets screwy because it is out of sync with the folder contents, closing 
> kmail and `touch`ing the folder fixes this problems.
> 
> So my question is this: What solutions you you guys use for this situation? 
> Should I be using fetchmail to do the POP and then read everything through 
> IMAP, even locally? Should I just have the school forward all mail to my 
> local MTA? What do you do?
> 
> Spencer
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