On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:24 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 08:47 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Seven words: This particular ISP does not support IMAP. > > > > In fact most commercial ISPs don't support it, which is kind of > > understandable from their point of view. They prefer to hand off the > > mail and forget it, rather than being responsable for the care and > > feeding of many potentially large mailboxes. Corporate mail is a totally > > different story and IMAP fits in well. Which is why I use it on my > > corporate account. > > Guess I shouldn't have been so terse... :( > > Run an IMAPd on your home server. Then, expose it to the world > via webmail, which you don't like, or imaps (port 993), since > you (reasonably) want to use Evo.
Two problems: 1) I don't have a home server. I have a bunch of machines including WinXP, Fedora 3 and MacOS X, all sharing the same ADSl connection. The FC3 and MacOS machines are laptops and hence not suitable as servers. 2) My ISP gives me an ADSL connection to a variable IP address. I know there are ways round this but it's a pain. > Combine it with something like fetchmail (or getmail). You could > then tie it in with SpamAssassin and/or a filter like maildrop. > > Here's the step-by-step process for creating the local-access > installation: > http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/ Thanks for the reference. poc _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
