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I have been beating my head against some email issues for a long |
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time, so it's time to cry "Uncle!" |
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I have been able to download my POP mail via fetchmail, but every time |
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I download, the download limit has been about 1MB. I would like to |
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have a local copy of all of my mail, an archive, and I want to compose |
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my mail off-line. I would like to have an MTA set u], like I used to |
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, to send all my email in a batch when I connect. |
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I like MH alot. I like Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws, VM and some other |
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GUI apps that work over the top of MH. I have several hard |
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drives/partitions with historical archives of email in mh format from |
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long ago. |
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I tried to follow a couple of howtos, and got lost in a miasma of |
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encryption/authorization configuration issues that will probably lead |
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to other problems later on. I'd like to do this in the simplest, most |
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direct way possible---although I would not mind a bit of security, I |
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don't want to get lost along the way. |
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Some questions: |
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1. Can I use fetchmail to fetch only the latest 1000 (or so) emails |
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from gmail? I'd like to have an archive, up to date, for all email, |
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but I have several machines. I have used a POP "client" in the past |
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that I could do this, but cannot find such parameters for fetchmail. |
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So far, every time I try to run fetchmail, or Sylpheed/Sylpheed-claws, |
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the same thing happens---the downloads start from the earliest files |
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on gmail's server, and only will download 1MB. In the numerous times |
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I have started this, I haven't been able to reach anything near |
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current. Are the files on the server marked somehow, or can I cause |
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them to be marked so I don't grab them again (say, on another machine, |
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but by me)? |
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2. How to incorporate all of the various Mail archives into a |
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single, up to date one, to enable weeding and sorting all of those |
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files from times gone by. |
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3. SMTP issues: is it even reasonable to ask for help to render a |
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simple setup to use gmail as an smtp server? I had it working two |
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years ago, or so, but it doesn't want to work anymore. For me. So |
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far. |
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I'd be happy to use sylpheed as a temporary gui email "client" with |
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the ability to use fetchmail to do daily updates. GNUS is a |
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possibility: I like GNUS, and I suppose it's reasonable to run a |
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separate emacs process to run GNUS. I want to avoid evolution, as |
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slick as it is, or thunderbird. |
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I apologize that this seems a very complicated bunch of questions. |
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Email has always seemed complicated to me, though. |
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Alan |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com 1-670-256-2043 |
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I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I |
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must share it with other people who like it. |
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--------Richard Stallman |
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