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Thank you, Nick for the excellent explanation. I'll save it and look over |
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it. At one time I had some threads on this but I can't find them anymore |
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- probably were on the system that crashed <G>. |
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nick |
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Rout wrote: |
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> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:54:12 +0200 |
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> Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: |
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>> OK, sorry, I remember now why I gave up using opera! |
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>> What you can do is setting up a mail server, (postfix, exim, qmail) as an |
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>> imap server on your machine. |
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> You are confused. postfix, exim and qmail are MTA's - they speak smtp. |
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> They do not store mail, they pass it to another smtp server of an LDA |
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> (local delivery agent). |
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> I think that the appropriate advice is: |
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> Have procmail deliver the mail to an imap mail store appropriate for an |
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> imap server of your choice. Options are cyrus, courier, dovecot and |
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> others. Then you can configure both opera and pine (or any other imap |
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> capable email program) to access the mail via your choice of imap |
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> server. |
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> Your delivery path is: |
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> ISP pop server->fetchmail->procmail->imap store |
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> the path to access the mail is |
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> imap store->imap server->opera |
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> ------> pine |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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Registered Linux User #188143 |
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