From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KImPz-0007yC-JH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB403E04E7; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8647EE04E7 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237DB65D03 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.716 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.716 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.883, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kGLNKTGFS9AK for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2C166819 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KImPn-000612-CT for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:07 +0000 Received: from c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([76.17.159.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:07 +0000 Received: from grante by c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:26:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20080715130534.GA32331@ackbar.home> <200807151711.34673.Nicolai.Beuermann@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: cf6858a9-1ea4-4cb8-b3ed-aad74489b605 X-Archives-Hash: f6821e33df026ef90cb0de1fd8514bf2 On 2008-07-15, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: >> I was looking into IMAP but I can't really figure out how it works > > Maybe one can compare it with a simple remote filesystem. With a few database features thrown in. With IMAP, you can create folders on the server and leave all your mail there. That way you can get to it with any IMAP client on any machine. Most ISPs (and Gmail) offer web access as well. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm wet! I'm wild! at visi.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list