On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 01:54:41PM +0200, Jan Eden via Mutt-users wrote:
> On 2022-09-12 13:37, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:32:25PM +0200, meine wrote:
> >
> > > on the POP3: it is my favourite because mails are on my own hard disk
> > > after downloading -- both for
On 2022-09-12 13:37, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:32:25PM +0200, meine wrote:
>
> > on the POP3: it is my favourite because mails are on my own hard disk
> > after downloading -- both for security and archiving. I have to dive
> > into the possibilities of having the same
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:32:25PM +0200, meine wrote:
on the POP3: it is my favourite because mails are on my own hard disk
after downloading -- both for security and archiving. I have to dive
into the possibilities of having the same for IMAP.
Fetchmail and getmail do that. There's also
For IMAP indeed a manual poll isn't necessary, update of the content of
mail folders is rather frequent.
on the POP3: it is my favourite because mails are on my own hard disk
after downloading -- both for security and archiving. I have to dive
into the possibilities of having the same for IMAP.
John Hawkinson wrote:
> [ I want to preface this by saying the recent discussions about POP3 that
> suggest it is a reasonable approach or a viable alternative are quite
> concerning to me, becauase as a practical matter, my understanding is that
> basically "nobody should still be using POP3"
[ I want to preface this by saying the recent discussions about POP3 that
suggest it is a reasonable approach or a viable alternative are quite
concerning to me, becauase as a practical matter, my understanding is that
basically "nobody should still be using POP3" and it is a moribund and
> Why isn't there a default binding for the "imap-fetch-mail" function,
> just like 'G' for POP3? I know I can assign it, but was curious
AFAIK POP3 needs to be triggered with 'G' to fetch newe mails and IMAP
just reads the mailserver for all mails in your boxes. IMAP is to have
all emails from
