[geeks] ISP stuff and mail configs

[Dave Kimmel]

My ISP is changing stuff and, in a nutshell, my email address has to
change.  This causes me no great concern, since I don't have very many
people to tell and only 4 or 5 mailing lists (and a couple web site
memberships) to switch over.  Plus I won't get those newsletters that I
actually subscribed to but just delete on sight.  So, overall, in spite of
the annoyance, this doesn't bug me much.

Now comes stupid question time:  What's the best way to suck email down
from two (or more) different mailboxes (I can use IMAP or POP3 to access
one, but might only get POP3 for the other)?

Currently, I use Pine's IMAP support to leave the INBOX on my ISP's
server, but this won't work to combine multiple INBOXes into one.  I can
use forwarding on the old account to accomplish this, but I figure that if
I've got to change my mail setup anyway I might as well do it right.

I'm considering using Fetchmail, but I don't quite know how it works
(yet).  From the looks of things, I can either have it deliver to the SMTP
server on my local box (exim), or run it right through /usr/sbin/sendmail
(which ends up running exim).  I don't know how this will all work yet.

To make things more fun, my user id on my local machine doesn't match the
one on any of the mail accounts, but I think Fetchmail can handle this.

Any advice for this kind of stuff?  Anything that might come and bite me
in the ass when I least expect it?  I will, of course, test it (read: send
an email to work, make sure that address rewriting works, send one from
work and make sure it appears properly, call it working).

Thanks,
-- Dave Kimmel
   criscokid at v-wave.com