That's great! I'll try it when I get a chance. Right now I'm using Fedora so I can study for the RHCE exam, but I'm probably going to get back to Gentoo soon.
-Peter On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:48 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Peter Davoust wrote: > > That's a good point, but I'm not really sure how to setup or even use an > > IMAP share. > > If you have your mail in a .maildir then it is as simple as emerging > courier-imap. If not, it is still just as easy - just set up your IMAP > folder which will be empty, open it from your existing mail client, and > copy your folders over wholesale. > > > > Also, (I assume you're talking about setting up an e-mail > > address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]), don't you have to buy a domain > > name for that? > > > > Well, you can just use fetchmail to get your mail from some other > source, but domain names only cost $8/year or so - not a big deal. > There are a billion mail redirection services who will simply forward > mail for that domain to an address that you specify, which you can then > fetch into your IMAP store. Or, if you have a static IP or set up > dynamic DNS you can run your own mail server. > > Sure, not internet 101, but you can scale the approach to your desired > level of sophistication and still have the benefits of an IMAP folder store. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFKWQOG4/rWKZmVWkRAkVXAKCms3geZJ1u+tprx9JAhclWRaLZpQCgsaY+ > uqEYn4QI4fO7KYr9Q89yqLU= > =ZZZ4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
