well ric has it right:) what i want is to not lose the geek toy that kmail ( and one assumes, other clients) gives me which is mail identities and associating posting addresses with folders, as my original post indicated i'm aware of procmail and server filtering which, large setups aside, would be fine for myself, my daughter and a few boxes, my question was a shot in the dark really,wondering whether there was some way other than a remote session to avoid the individual client configuration so as to provide the 'geek-toys':)
as i have never actually used imap and/or fetchmail with procmail and all the googling i did told me how to install them but little about what they 'couldn't do' i thought it worth asking. configuring only a few mail clients might not seem a big deal bit i won't have learnt anything new,plus there still remains the question of access from outside, vnc i think, here i come, which begs the question what is the minimum hardware to run a box that runs a vnc server and email client and precious little else? i'm hoping its not very much 'cos that's all i got! ideally i will be accessing from other machines - say, my mothers, over the net in which case i can install vnc on it, but of course i may have to install some web client for this if i want to get my mail from a mates box, features aside, what woud that do to hardware requirements? bascule On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 5:12 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > All the rest is just techno-geek toys. I, and my users, just want to > > > > > read our mail. I'm not going to go to excessive measures on the servers > > > make that happen. IMAP does the job exceedingly well, and it serves to > > > any client, be it Linux, Mac, or Windows. I can check my mail from any > > > client, anywhere in the world. As long as it properly supports IMAP > > > filtering. -- There are *no* inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts. (alt.fan.pratchett)
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