Hi again! You know, most ISP suck one way or the other. I suggest that you get an account from a public site and ask them to forward your e-mail there (they shouldn't have trouble with that, actually they will love that you aren't using up their harddrive space).
I.e. Yahoo! Mail can accept enough e-mails, then you can download from POP (that's what I'm doing), they have a small quota but it doesn't matter if you are downloading locally your e-mail on a regular basis. I think Hotmail also allows that. Nothing beats having e-mail locally, especiall for mail lists, it's great to do searches. Roberto -- Roberto Machorro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, November 02, 2001, 12:36:08 AM, you wrote: TS> Hello Roberto, TS> on Freitag, 2. November 2001 04:11:42 you wrote: >> AFAIK IMAP doesn't download your messages, it just gets the list of >> messages and you download/get them "on the fly". It's all stored and >> done in the server. TS> Thanks for your explanation, but I already knew the TS> advantages/disadvantages of IMAP. The sad point is that my email TS> provider allows 10 MBytes or 500 messages on their servers, whatever TS> comes first. If I want to be subscribed to the linux kernel mailing TS> list (about 200-400 messages per day) I have to retrieve all messages TS> to TheBat's local folder. I don't want to select messages on the TS> server I just want ALL messages retrieved without manually operating TS> the mail dispatcher. >> That's the theoretical part of it. I no longer use IMAP, and have >> always used POP3 with TB, so I don't know how the IMAP support is or >> how it words on it. TS> Until now I could use POP3 with my account but my provider had TS> problems with his POP3 support. So I switched to IMAP with the opinion TS> that this protocol is superior to POP3 and that TheBat should provide TS> more functionality with IMAP. In reality it seems to be less. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com