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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:15:30
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0510102110340.4365@gandalf
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems by Nick Rout
1 Nick, I take it you use or like cyrus? Any comments on pros and cons of
2 each?
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4
5 On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
6
7 >
8 > |
9 > -----> other imap client
10 >
11 > Pretty well any email client does imap, including thunderbird,
12 > evolution, outlook (and express), mutt, balsa et al.
13 >
14 > An imap setup makes it easy to play with email clients until you find
15 > the right one, because everything remains on the server until you delete
16 > it.
17 >
18 >
19 > PS cyrus is very robust but harder to set up.
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21 >
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23 >
24 >> Fetchmail keeps its business as before, now
25 >> feeding your mail server; you can point opera to your server.
26 >>
27 >> Procmail would not be used in this case, but you can organize folders
28 >> within opera...
29 >>
30 >> Pine would still be able to read mail from your server
31 >>
32 >> hth,
33 >> --
34 >> Jean
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40 Brett I. Holcomb
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