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Re: [LUG] console mail clients

 

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 11:16:41PM +0100, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On 2008-08-03T11:07+0100 Henry Bremridge wrote:
> > - You collect email by fetchmail. This collects email from your servers
> 
> I prefer IMAP and http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/offlineimap.html

Seconded; if nothing else, offlineimap doesn't have the history of
security problems that fetchmail has; also, it's extremely careful about
not losing mail.

Just set up filtering on the server, and have offlineimap synchronise
everything (or a subset, or whatever).

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