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Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com)Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com)Posted Sep 16, 2005 5:22 UTC (Fri) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)In reply to: Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) by dilinger Parent article: Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) You could use fetchmail or getmail to retrieve the messages, and then use Sylpheed to read them.
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Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) Posted Sep 16, 2005 5:54 UTC (Fri) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867) [Link] Sure, or I could switch to pop3, or I could use offlineimap.. But if I'm going to switch to a new MUA, there has to be some benefit to doing so. Having to work around missing IMAP features seems like extra work with little benefit.
Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) Posted Sep 16, 2005 11:48 UTC (Fri) by deweerdt (subscriber, #18159) [Link] I understand your POV, however isolating the mail retrieving (fetchmail) and sending (msmtp, postfix, ...) parts - I'm aware that it requires a little effort to setup - allows you to swap MUAs easily. I use mutt maily, but I'm able to use Thunderbird or Horde if needed.
Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) Posted Sep 16, 2005 12:03 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link] one of the key advantages of useing IMAP is that your mail remains in one place, no matter what machine you read it from.
saying that you need to pull a copy of the mail to your local machine (whichever machine you happen to be on at the time) and then deal with it there is a major change and regression.
now I realize that a lot of people only ever use one machine for reading mail and aren't bothered by this, but those of us whoend up useing many different machines to deal with our mail during the day _really_ don't want to end up with it spread all over the place so pulling a copy locally isn't a real option.
Sylpheed 2.0 messaging client pushes the envelope (Linux.com) Posted Sep 16, 2005 20:33 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] > one of the key advantages of useing IMAP is that your mail remains in one> place, no matter what machine you read it from.
As a bit of a side note, PINE supports remote configs stored on the IMAP server. It also supports remote address books. The upshot is that _any_ machine with a copy of PINE available can be _your_ copy of PINE without changing any state on the local machine.
IIRC Netscape had something similar where you could store your config on an LDAP server (probably because they also sold LDAP server software).
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