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AFAIK, gentoo-dev is nothing more than a mailing list, and does little more |
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than take in messages, archive them, and then distribute them to list |
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members. I don't believe that such things as IMAP or POP even apply in any |
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technical sense. |
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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov posted on Tue, 24 May 2016 14:20:38 +0600 as |
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> excerpted: |
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> >> thanks. i just don;t want my inbox full of gentoo anymore. i use |
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> >> gentoo |
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> > Actually, if the case was only to "not had full INBOX of gentoo", it was |
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> > possible to just enable "sorting" and place gentoo-dev in separate |
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> > IMAP-folder (like I did). But I guess, you've already unsubscribed, so |
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> > nevermind ;) |
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> Of course, to place gentoo in a separate IMAP-folder, you must actually |
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> /have/ an IMAP folder, which implies having an IMAP account, not, say, |
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> POP3, which seems to be what gets offered 'round here.[1] |
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> Tho of course it's possible to sort local mail, as from POP3, into |
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> folders/directories too, as I do for various commercial lists and mailed |
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> notifications from wordpress, etc, tho not for community mailing lists |
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> like the gentoo lists. |
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> For community lists I normally use gmane's list2news service, getting the |
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> lists as newsgroups, which I process using my favorite news client (pan, |
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> FWIW). |
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> [1] Yes, it is of course possible to run your own mail server locally, |
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> and serve IMAP, while pulling in mail from various accounts, but then |
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> that's simply doing the same division into local folders to serve over |
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> IMAP, that you can do with a mail client pulling in the mail and sorting |
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> it into similar local folders without the additional IMAP complexity, so |
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> no need for IMAP in the loop, at least if you have only one primary |
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> machine, as I do. |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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