Re: newbie install
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:15:30PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, February 13 at 10:33 PM, quoth sigi:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > To comment on your last two sentences: that's not true.
>
> You mean it's not *necessarily* true; it is true if he sticks with the
> default behavior.
OK, you're right... but in my eyes you implied, he'd have to decide
between downloading messages or keeping them on the server when using
fetchmail, sorry.
So: sure, for the keep-option you have to read the manpages... but
which ordinary mutt-user doesn't have to search so many things to make
things more usefull? ;)
sigi