Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Al Active <LLLActive@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:13 +0700, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> On Friday 20 January 2006 00:02, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 January 2006 23:23, Kevanf1 wrote:
> > > On 19/01/06, C. Brouerius van Nidek <constant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Have a reserve webmail account which I use irregular.
> > > > I would like to know if it is possible to get the email from such a web
> > > > mail account to my computer in order to read it off line or just to
> > > > save it there. The instructions on the account page are not very clear
> > > > so I do not come very far there. There-above they are not written in my
> > > > mother tongue, nor in one of the other languages which I master good. I
> > > > assume there must be a good knowledge on the list because several list
> > > > members are using e.g gmail etc. and I think that it makes common sense
> > > > to have the important emails on your own puter.
> > >
> > > I'm not 100% sure but I think it may all depend on whether your
> > > webmail provider has POP servers.  If so they should offer details of
> > > how to set it up.  Gmail and Yahoo Mail (I have accounts with both)
> > > both have pretty good configuration pages for setting this up.
> >
> > Well they have a kind of setup page for their POP server but the
> > information that they supply is less than complete and not useful.
> 
> Gave up and are now looking for a Gmail invitation. Anybody who can help me?
> 

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Invites

:-)
Al