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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