A number of 'mixed' feelings about IMAP; I was active in the initial
IETF workgroup....
I am migrating my mail server to Scalix CE. So I could have a nice
IMAP server on my workstation....
I would have to have it on my workstation as I do a lot of email on airplanes!
At 03:05 PM 12/27/2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 13:42, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > >----
> > >it's not entirely clear what you are trying to actually accomplish.
> >
> > For each of my 'identities' (day job, home business, teaching job,
> > etc) to have the mail totally separated. Not to have all the mail
> > munged together, particularly the in and out boxes!
>
>If any or all of the mail servers support IMAP, use that and
>the folders remain stored on the server and are displayed
>separately in Evolution, associated with the corresponding
>server. If they don't you could use fetchmail to pull from
>the various accounts and deliver to separate accounts on
>your own IMAP server, then configure evolution to access
>all of them at once (which will display them separately).
>The big advantage of using IMAP is that you can access the
>same mailboxes and folders from different locations and
>different mailers without needing any other conversions.
>
>--
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
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