Serious Evolution Problem

Scott geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Sat Oct 14 04:55:21 UTC 2006


", "ruscook spake thusy);:
> I know this doesn't help your immediate problem, but as a FYI. I was
> using Pop. What I did was move to postfix, fetchmail and dovecot (I
> muddled through the setup, I'm not an expert at all).
> 
> Now fetchmail d/l (as a process regularly) from my many pop accounts
> into my local account, via postfix. Dovecot provides the IMAP service so
> I can use thunderbird or evolution or sylpheed  interchangeably as I
> wish,  to access any mail folder using the imap protocol. This is MUCH
> more efficient and flexible than a local database tied to one application.

I had planned to do a similar thing. But then I started investigating
all of this and was a bit overwhelmed by it.  So I just opt for paying
someone else for an IMAP server instead. :-) Before that I was paying
another provider for POP (they didn't offer IMAP).


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