Hi, I've become pretty fond of using offlineimap to synchronize a local Maildir with an IMAP server, and then use Evolution to manage the local Maildir. This works better for me than the usual POP3 because then when I don't have my laptop and want to access email -- even some old ones, sometimes -- I can use the web client on the server.
In your setup, you can do the same with a central IMAP server running offlineimap to synchronize the server with specific Yahoo and/or Google Mail accounts. :) On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 01:51 +0800, Peter Santiago wrote: > Ramil Galib wrote: > > Hi folks, > > It seems that everybody in my network is using yahoo mail or gmail. > > Since we have a slow internet connection, is there a difference in > > bandwidth utilization if they used email clients (Evolution, > > Thunderbird, ...) compared to accessing directly using a browser? > > Is there a way to cache emails from yahoo and gmail and route it to > > users in my network? An email gateway/proxy perhaps (if this is the > > right term). > > Hope you can give insights. > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > I'd like to give my two cents for this. > > With regards to bandwidth, the main issue here is how frequently will > the users access their mailboxes on yahoo or gmail, and the number of > incoming email and message size. > With a slow bandwidth and large amount of incoming email, it would make > sense to use yahoo and gmail as is, or using an email client that uses > IMAP protocol. POP3 is not advised, since this will download all the > email in the yahoo or gmail inboxes, unless one is worried about security. > > About caching email, fetchmail can do the trick, although it involves > manually configuring all the accounts that will be accessed over yahoo > and gmail, in addition to setting up a separate MTA to deliver to the > backend mailboxes. In this case, email clients can be used to access > the local mailbox backend to retrieve the email. The downside for this > setup is that there is a delay in retrieving up to date email, since one > will want to schedule the retrieval of email to conserve bandwidth, > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- Federico Sevilla III F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph
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