Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

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Thank you.  Opera is a client but it doesn't understand the system of 
mboxes or maildirs that Pine uses - at least not as far as I've been able 
to discover. It can talk to IMAP or POP servers but doesn't seem to have a 
place for procmail to dump the mail to.  With Pine I can tell it to use 
the local mail folders where mail is dumped after it's fetched and 
processed by procmail.

I've liked the fetchmail->procmail setup as I can have procmail process 
the mail in many ways and even though Opera can do much of that I'ld like 
to keep this process.

Thanks.


On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Jean Magnan 
de Bornier wrote:

> Le 09 octobre à 20:49:12 "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> écrit notamment:
>
> | I have been running fetchmail->procmail->pine but would like to use
> | Opera.  However, Opera doesn't appear to be able to understand the system
> | of mailboxes for Pine.
>
> Is not pine a mail client, just as opera(mail)? In which case what would
> pine's system of mailboxes be?
>
> | How can I use Opera with fetchmail, procmail and pine or do I need to
> | move to something else - like postfix.  If so what is recommeded and how
> | is it setup?  Do I still use fetchmail and procmail with something like
> | postfix?
>>
> I think you can use any combination of those, but opera can retrieve your
> mail (the basic function of fetchmail), split it into separate folders
> (the basic function of procmail), and send your mail through a remote smtp
> server (postfix would do it also, with more complicated things).
> It all depends of what you expect from your mail system; if you manage one
> or two personal accounts, opera alone will do fine, but you can also keep
> your fetchmail and procmail with their own settings.
>
> If what you aim at is using alternatively pine or opera (or gnus, or mutt,
> or thunderbird, etc...), then you need to use an imap-based system, which
> can be done with postfix, or by taking advantage of imap capacities of
> your remote servers (if they provide it)
>
> hth,
>

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