[Wolves] Email help

[Wayne Morris]

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 14:13, David Goodwin wrote:

> 
> IMAP's good because it stores all your mail on a server, so any client 
> can use it - as opposed to the pop3 approach where you download mail 
> from the server into the mail client.... this mail is then unavailable 
> to other email applications.
> 
> Fetchmail will download your mail from your ISP.
> 
> Fetchmail will then pass the email to your MTA (e.g. sendmail or postfix 
> (better)).
> 
> Postfix will then deliver the email to which ever user it is addressed 
> to, using procmail. Your ~/.procmailrc file will define which mailbox 
> mail is placed in.
> 
> As a user you will then connect to the mail server over IMAP and read 
> your mails. You might then log out/reboot the machine/switch email 
> clients, and continue reading the same messages etc (as it's all server 
> side stuff).
> 
> Does that explain everything okish?
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
One possibly bad thing my Imap set up does (esp from a Windows client) is display
 my home directory and contents while it is finding mail folder.
Although not much of a security implication (as to log on to Imap you need user/pass of 
that user anyway), it could be if you do what I do and setup an Imap link on my secretarys 
pc so she can check my mail in emergencies)

Also Linux-Linux viewing Imap (RH9+Evolution -> RH8+Exim) can be very slow at times refreshing folders
whereas Windows client reads it really quickly.