That won't help if the ISP only is using POP3 and they don't allow you to store your messages on the server for x amount days so you have to get them off. Of course, that solution should be that you create your own IMAP server that fetch the mail off the POP3 server but how many "normal users" would want to spend the time and effort to do that?
On 4/24/2002 at 9:40 AM Cody Russell wrote: >Can't you just use IMAP or something, and store messages on the server? > >On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 02:40, Matts wrote: >> Many Linux users are Dual booters, they sometime use windows and >sometimes Linux. One problem with this is that the mail you have fetched >in windows is not available in Linux and vice versa. >> >> One solution to this is to create a utility that evolution calls upon >start and exit. On start to fetch all new items in windows >(outlook/outlook express) mailbox and insert them into proper places in >evolutions mailbox, and on exit to copy all new items in evolutions >mailbox to windows. >> >> If this is not possible, another solution is to do a windows port of >evolution. This would make it possible to have the evolution on the Linux >partition to use the mailbox of the evolution on the windows partition and >the problem is solved nicely. >> >> How hard is it to do such port ? I understand thatn Gnome2.0 shall be >multi platform. Will that make porting linux programs like evolution >easier ? >> There are already ports of gnumeric and the gimp. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
