On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:50:04 +1200 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My "vision" was some sort of imap server running locally (under both > windows and linux) to which was fed email from my paradise account, > checked every minute. From there point whichever client to that > server. That is certainly feasible. fetchmail will check any number of pop boxes and feed them into your local mail delivery system, so that part is easy. However there are practical problems with the rest viz: 1. you need to have a windows imap server and a linux imap server, both of which treat the mailstore the same and which share the mail store. Different imap servers use different mail storage formats. 2. The mail store would therefore need to be on a file system both servers can read and write to, which leaves basically only fat32. whilst fat32 may do the job, there is no user/group or read/write/execute structure on fat32, making sure that most linux imap software is not going to run well (or at all) on a fat32 partition. 3. I guess you could run a linux emulator when you are in windows, eg vmware, and run a linux imap server n there, accessing a decent filesystem and communicating with the windows imap clent over virtual networking. pretty much overkill though. > Seems like a really simple idea but on further thought could be > considerably complicated. I think so. >Could also be that this is an entirely new > idea that no-one does. better IMHO to spend $200 on an old headless machine, install a linux imap server on it and log in from your laptop over the network. cheaper than vmware :-) > > Thanks for the link Jim, I'm having a look now. > > Roger > > > Jim Cheetham wrote: > > > Roger Searle wrote: > > > >> [plucking up sufficient courage to post...] Is it possible to set > >> something like that up with a standard pop.paradise account on a > >> machine that needs to be able to dual boot? Similar in a way (but > >> more versatile) to what I can currently do with Mozilla. I would > >> love to be able to get my email in Mozilla when I need to be running > >> XP, but also be able to use Evolution in Linux. (I'm still only able > >> to run Lunux about 50% of the time at the moment.) > > > > > > POP isn't very good at "leaving email on the server" scenarios - you > > can easily get confused between "new mail" and "mail previously seen > > but not deleted". > > > > In general, I don't use an ISP-provided mailbox for anything except > > talking to the ISP itself ... > > > > If you want to experiment with IMAP mail (which is the "correct" way > > to do what you want) take a look a http://imap.cc - FastMail, a > > freebie service that will at the very least let you play, and at the > > best will be your "hotmail" replacement. > > > > > Guest > > > 10 MB storage space > > > 40 MB bw/month > > > IMAP/Web access > > > 45 day no activity period > > > Taglines on emails > > > FREE > > > > (I have no connection with them, just found the service to be "exactly > > as advertised") > > > > -jim > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
