[ale] IMAP Client

[Jerald Sheets]

--- Patrick Bartkus <list at trudiedolls.com> wrote:
> I have a freind who does some traveling. His ISP
> doesn't have a web-mail
> front end. When he is on the road, he can only use
> dial-up to access
> e-mail from his Outlook client on his PC.


There's a lot of issues here, so let me take them in
the order they're in my head, and you can tell me if I
missed something.

IMAP is a two-way street.  You need a client, but you
also need a server that will speak IMAP. (IMAPD)  He
can have a client (Outlook and Outlook Express are
both IMAP compliant clients), but the trick for him is
that the mail server has to be IMAP capable as well. 
SO, in effect, the only way he could do what you're
suggesting (unless his ISP supports IMAP) is to have a
small Linux server at his home that uses fetchmail to
retrieve all his email, and then he connects to it,
and not his ISP.

Did that make sense?