[ale] IMAP Client

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:47 -0700, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> --- 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,

To add to this: Most ISP's _don't_ support IMAP as they don't want their
systems to be the storage medium for all of their customers email
forever.

Easy solution: Get a gmail account and forward all the email to there
while he's on the road.

> and not his ISP.
> 
> Did that make sense?
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