Online mail readers

[Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu]

Perhaps I should clarify.

All the popular mail clients have the ability to leave mail on the
server. However in the end they still copy mail to the local user's
folder. The Local mail folder and the mail server are kept in sync, so
the messages now exist on both the client and the server. Even IMAP does
this to some degree. 

I need a client that can read DIRECTLY from the spool file
(/var/mail/username), without making a copy of the mail locally (~/Mail
or ~/evolution). The reason for this is that I want a way to separate
user storage and mail storage.

If it is not possible then I I apologise for the silly question :-) 
Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Super Donkey [mailto:smurf_www at xs4all.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:28 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Online mail readers
> 
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:30:06 +0200, Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> >
> > We all know Mutt. It reads mail directly from the spool without
> > dowloading it. It is however text based.
> >
> > Is there a Graphic mail client that does this? The most popular mail
> > clients all download mail to ~/Mail or somesuch.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> Any modern mail app can do this or they really should. At least the
ones I
> have used (Outlook 2000/Express, Thunderbird (think so didn't use that
one
> to much) and of course Evolution.
> 
> In Evolution--> Tools::Settings::Double click on the mail account (or
> choose edit, you need to do this for each account)::Then choose the
tab
> Receiving Options::Message Storage --> enable checkbox "leave messages
on
> server".
> 
> 
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