Hi, Thanks for a surprising response to my POP3 quiz.
Finally I apparently have dropped into a group of people who knows a bit about this. I'm working with a mission in West Africa. We have an office with a LAN in the capital with a Red Hat7 box running smtp/pop3/imap servers. There are about 20 expatriates in our organisation, let's call them user1...user20. A couple of computers on the office LAN are for messaging access when the expatriates are in town. Each user can log into the IMAP server from any LAN client and manage their inbox/imap forlder and send mail. No messages are stored on the client machines, they use an imap mail client to manage their folders on the server. Thus no data is stored on the client LAN computers. I have learnt that unfortunately The Bat is not suitable as an IMAP client which just looks up user's mailfolders at a server. However, when people are out in the bush, a shortwave radio modem dials up mail server and the messages are transferred into a simple Outlook Express client in the bush. And the main problem with OE is that it doesn't actually have the server detete transferred messages until *all* are successfully received. 3 of 5 times we reach 28 of 30 messages before the radio modems kick us of due to interference, and you may imagine the frustration when there are 56 messages to transfer the next day. I winder if The Bat might be a suitable email client out in the bush instead of OE. The POP3 mbx it need to check will have msgs for all users (user1..user20). All messages should be fetched when connecting to the server regardless of which user who actually connects. When the msgs arrive, they should be routed to the corresponding account/profile (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be put in user5's inbox etc.) Each user should have their own account/profile (own reply-to address, inbox folder, sent items folder, any any personal folders) and they should have to login with their username/pwd at program start. Would it be possible to configure/setup The Bat to 'serve' 20 different users in a scenario like this? If yes, how do I set it up, and would it be possible to do something with my 'POP3 quiz' question to have The Bat force the server to actually delete each received message from the server and not wait until all messages are (eventually) transferred... Thanks for comments on this and apologize for this long post. Best regards Tor -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
