I second the switch to IMAP -- and also possibly consider switching to GMail (or Gmail for Domains). I do the same thing you speak of -- except when I use an unconfigured machine I just use Googles beautiful webmail. My Blackberry works with their native client. I routinely have a desktop, laptop, cell phone, and work computer logged into the GMail account.
GMail can also pull mail via POP from GMAVT.net if you wish to retain your gpbrown address! Stan On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Josh Sled <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary Brown <[email protected]> writes: > > The main purpose for this is so that my wife and I can share one > email > > (pop) account and message repository (Inbox, Sent, etc...) from different > > user accounts on the same computer. Any additional functionality would be > > great. > > Switch to IMAP … it's almost 2009, already. :) > > But seriously, switch to IMAP. Have an IMAP server where all email is > stored, and connect from multiple/various clients (thunderbird, > squirrelmail (web based), blackberry service, outlook, &c.). Pull email > From your ISP via fetchmail (via either POP or IMAP). > > I've done this for a long time. fetchmail pulls my mail via imap(s) > From dreamhost every five minutes. Local delivery goes through procmail > to sort into maildir folders in my homedir. courier-imap is setup to > serve those folders directly. I primarily connect via Gnus (in emacs), > but have used thunderbird (when on the laptop), squirrelmail (when > traveling) and mutt (when gnus is misbehaving). > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >
