On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:37:30PM -0400 or thereabouts, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I normally use fetchmail/procmail to draw email off of several pop servers. Then I use Kmail to pop the mail off my own machine and into Kmail.
But when I am away from home, I would like to retain the email on the pop server until I get back home. Thus, I have to use only Kmail (with 'do not delete') while I am away from home... without procmail and spamassassin and other filtering goodies... Just Kmail.
It seems to work but it doesn't work in the global fashion that fetchmail/procmail can be made to work in. It's more of a 'user only' gizmo which means it's eash user for himself... and admin'ing a couple of machines would be more problematic. <snip>
getmail will work in global mode... just taken from their website: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/getmail.html#summary getmail must have write permission to the Maildirs you are delivering to. This can be done by making the various destinations group writable, by only delivering to destinations owned by the user getmail is running as, or by running getmail as root. When delivering to Maildirs, getmail will attempt to chown any files it creates to the owner of the Maildir.
But it does appear to retain email on a pop server.
Yes, it does. I have recommended this to people all over the world, and have never had a complaint. -- Gary Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?