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[Gustav Degreef <gustav97@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/03/2011 03:34 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:04 +0530, Gustav Degreef wrote:
>   
> > On 01/02/2011 09:16 PM, James Knott wrote:
> >     
> > > James Knott wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Gustav Degreef wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > Is there a way for them to share the same inbox, sent, drafts, etc.
> > > > > folders over the network?  If not, then is it possible to easily switch
> > > > > to imap?
> > > > >           
> > > > Gmail supports IMAP.  Just create the new IMAP accounts on the email
> > > > clients and leave the POP account in place, so that the old mail will
> > > > remain available.  If desired, you can move the existing mail from
> > > > the POP folders to new ones on the IMAP server.  Once that's been
> > > > completed, you can delete the POP accounts from the email clients. 
> > > > Of course, with gmail, the users can also use web mail access, when
> > > > away from their computers and have all their mail available.
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > Forgot to mention, when you set up IMAP, turn off the POP downloads,
> > > so that new messages will only appear in IMAP.
> > >
> > >       
> > Very much appreciate all the input, I went to the gmail page and looked
> > at the imap info. 
> >
> > One of the reasons I am not sure about IMAP is that my friends' office
> > staff have many kmail folders where the mail is sorted to.   The mail is
> > sorted to folders with reference to individual person, topic, status,
> > etc., etc.  The folders have become complex over the eight years of
> > use.  But the Gmail webmail interface does not have the capacity to
> > create folders.   If my friends switch from POP to IMAP could they
> > retain the folders and folder structure that has evolved?  That is why
> > we were considering sharing the kmail folders on their internal
> > network.  Thanks, Gustav.
> >     
> I also sort e-mail to many folders. So I have my gmail forwarded to my
> Linux system. So I do not use imap or pop with gmail. This way all mail
> arrives via SMTP, where it is sorted into IMAP folders using procmail.
> Thus I only set up filters in one place, independent of any reader. I
> run an imap server so I can access these anywhere. This also means I can
> use any e-mail reader locally without the worry of how it will store
> e-mail. The advantage of using imap is that it sorts out maintaining
> info about new/unread/read messages across all readers on different
> machines. Exporting kmail limits this to kmail.
>
> So, maybe use gmail forwarding?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Roger Oberholtzer
>   
Sorry, I seem to have horribly messed up this thread.  Trying to
continue the discussion on a new thread.

Sounds like a nice arrangement, could work for us, but I don't know
anything about procmail.  And I would need some kind of link to a
tutorial before even attempting it.  I have installed the new system for
my friends, now to configure it.  Any pointers to an online how to etc.
would be great.  I looked in the opensuse SDB but nothing seems to be
close to what we need.   Thanks for the tips.  Gustav.

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