WengoPhone vs. Skype

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>Brad De Vries wrote:
>>>> On 8/28/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>At least you can escalate.  I'm stuck with a damn satellite ISP that
>>>refuses to ever let me talk to anybody above them.
>>
>> That sucks, at least I can vent my frustration on a super.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>Anyway, if that works, fetchmail can retrieve the junkmail.
>>
>> Sample fetchmail line to access that sub-folder?  Here is what is working
>> now for the main one, obfuscated of course.
>>
>> poll MAILBOX.verizon.net with proto pop3
>>         user MMMMMMM with password NNNNNNN is PPPPPPP
>>
>> I'd assume a \backslash\something-or-other appended to the FQDN address
>> since their system is winderz, but me not a winderz user either, so I'm in
>> the dark too.
>
>No, it can't be done with pop3 - POP3 doesn't understand folders.
>
>This is one I used for an IMAP server that was automatically putting mail in
>a junk folder.
>
>poll host.com with proto imap:
>       user derek
>       folder inbox,INBOX.spam
>
Humm, sounds promising, I'll have to poke around with FF and see how it shows 
up there.

>It's often difficult to know exactly what the folder name is but a little
>playing around with using KMail directly to the IMAP server usually helps.
>I can't access any IMAP servers except the one on my laptop from where I am
>right now, so I can't tell you exactly what you would see.  First, I'd just
>see if I could set up an account in KMail to access your vz mail via IMAP.
>If that works, finding the folder should be easy.  fwiw, the fact that
>there's webmail with folders practically guarantees that there's an IMAP
>server, but they may only allow access to it from the host that runs the
>webmail.

Unforch, I've NDI how to go about even setting kmail up to do imap, all it 
sees here is the local mailboxes.  But I'll look into it nonetheless, thanks 
Derek.

>--
>derek



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