Re: newbie install
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On Friday, February 13 at 07:44 PM, quoth James Freer:
>>> I have three emails addresses with googlemail.com
>> Ah, fun.
> Does that mean considerable stress and grief??
Maybe. Gmail's IMAP support is a little weird. There are ways of
working around that, as you say, but sometimes the workaround is
unplatable, in which case.... stress and grief. :)
>> Eh? No, that must be an outdated guide.
> So just install mutt on it's own - there don't seem to be any
> dependencies according to synaptic.
Generally, yes. Now that you've been a bit more descriptive, it sounds
like you *may* want to use fetchmail and procmail (or similar
alternatives, like getmail instead of fetchmail or maildrop instead of
procmail).
> So what do i do... all i want [i think] is to have the mail
> collected from each account in turn [a bit like Thunderbird used to
> do] and put in separate email address folders.
Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like
fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmail, but fetchmail works
well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to
your computer and delete it from the server. You won't be able to read
email with the webmail frontend anymore; you'll have to use something
on your own computer.
Procmail and maildrop are programs designed to filter email into
different folders. They have relatively complex preference files, for
this very reason, but are quite powerful. I have a lot of experience
with procmail (enough to despise it), and so even though I can't help
you with the details of it, I recommend maildrop.
Note that you don't HAVE to use fetchmail or procmail or any of these
programs. You CAN simply use mutt to read the messages while they sit
on Gmail's POP or IMAP servers, and you can even use mutt to save
messages to local folders; it may not be the most convenient thing for
you, though. It all depends on how you want it to work.
~Kyle
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