Re: newbie install
2009/2/13 Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> 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.
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>> To comment on your last two sentences: that's not true.
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> You mean it's not *necessarily* true; it is true if he sticks with the
> default behavior.
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> ~Kyle
Kyle, Michael, Noah and Sigi
Thanks for your help. I will experiment further this w/e. I thought
there was a way of keeping emails on the server as that is offered by
most email clients. That is what i've done in the past just in case i
have a problem and have to reinstall everything - seems the email app
remembers what emails it has downloaded.
james