I suppose I could do that. Argg. I would have to learn about imap. I would
like it more if I could be sure netscape would leave the mail on the server.
Joel
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:25:20PM -0800, David Aikema wrote:
> On Monday 10 December 2001 09:57 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > My daughter wants to be able to read her mail from anywhere, not just at
> > home.
> > Currently, her mail comes via @HOME, whence it is fetched to my gateway
> > box, which she accesses with linux (remote X query). Works fine, but she
> > wants to read email from anywhere.
> > My gateway faces the internet and can serve as a mail server for her. She
> > uses netscape to read mail.
> > These are my questions:
> > 1. Can someone point to a good discussion of roaming profiles. I think I
> > would need that to allow her to use netscape from any computer to read her
> > mail.
> > 2. How can I be sure that netscape will not slurp all her email out of her
> > mail box on the linux server? Netscape 4.7x, which she uses, doesn't, but
> > netscape 6.1, which I use, does. After I read my mail once in 6.1, all the
> > mail has been downloaded to the local machine. I have checked the leave on
> > server box in the preferences, but, that doesn't seem to do any good.
>
> How about using IMAP instead of POP3?
>
> David Aikema
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