On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 05:17, Thomas Nyman wrote:
Hi,
I guess I was a bit unclear...I use imap which works fine, however this has the drawback that if my laptop is not connected to the LAN I cannot read the mails on the server. I would like to be able to automatically download copies locally..ok, I guess I can always "save" each individual email in a local folder as well as in a imap-folder..but given a choice I would like to be able to automatically transfer mail from my imap-folders to a local folder without it affecting my imap-services...maybe it cant be done without "popping", I don't really know. But it would be neat if it could be done...I was thinking that procmail might be able to filter email to two differents spools, one being on the imap-server and the other being a spool on the newtork, i.e a local spool on my laptop.
Anyway, thanks for the input.
If you want your messages on your laptop, why not just POP them and manage them locally? If you really want a copy locally AND a copy on your IMAP server, you can still download them but leave them on the server. I think this will eventually confuse you if you do any kind of sorting in your mail folders unless you do the same thing in both places. You could use procmail to forward a copy of eash message to a different user on your server and POP those copies, OR, you could use procmail to forward each received message to your laptop if your laptop was running an SMTP server (like postfix). There are several options, but it seems you may end up with something that is more trouble than it is worth. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Right behind you, I see the millions Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net