[geeks] personal mail handling

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 02:39, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:17:49PM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
> > I know many of you use IMAP for email access.  I'm considering moving 
> > to a more centralized system here and I'm wondering why IMAP works 
> > for you and how you have your system setup otherwise.  Do you have 
> > multiple workstations and (a) central server(s) for mail/files/etc or 
> > do you have a central workstation that you keep everything on or 
> > something in between?
> 
> I'm an IMAPper.  I run an imapd alongside my smtpd.  That box is backed up
> four times daily by rsync-over-ssh to another box.  For consistency, I
> always read my mail through IMAP, even if, like now, I'm logged in on
> that box.
> 
> The really nice thing about IMAP is the support for disconnected operation
> and synchronisation.  Trouble is, I know of just one client which supports
> that well.  The registered version of Multimail for the Palm.

Theoretically, Evolution has support for this now, but I haven't
bothered to try it out/read the docs...
	Greg

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