You'll have IMAP problems with multiple clients accessing it at one time if you use a standard mail spool. If you use Maildir, you shouldn't have these problems. I use Maildir, which is supported by qmail and postfix (not sure about others), and I don't have any problems. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Hicks [mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu] > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:14 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] eMail client > > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:49, Jay Kline wrote: > > One of the problems I have had with most console based mail > clients is I > > have a lot of sub folders that things get sorted into, and > I have yet to > > find a decent way of summarizing which folders have how many new > > messages, etc. Ill take a look at your config tonight and > see if that > > makes life any easier, but does anyone else work like this? Also, I > > generally use IMAP because keeping a consant connection open to the > > server isnt always possible (dumb sonicwall routers...) > > I, personally, cannot live without a 3-pane view of folders, messages, > and the message I'm viewing. I end up using Evolution for my mail, > which is kind of like using a sledgehammer to drive a nail. Before > that, I used Sylpheed, but I cut my teeth on Netscape mail (2.x, 3.x, > 4.x). I got rid of that when Mozilla started to be a better browser, > but didn't yet have decent mail capabilities. > > I'd like to use IMAP for mobility purposes, but I've never > been able to > configure it properly (and I had trouble when having two systems > accessing an IMAP mailbox simultaneously, even if one client is just > sitting there -- but that was years ago, so maybe that was > just a bug). > > However, I can get acceptable remote accesss performance when using > appropriate X11 protocol caching/compression software (actually, `ssh > -C' is all I need these days), as long as I don't have to deal with a > lot of mail. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I used to get high on life > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ but lately I've built up a > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) resistance. > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | > mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list