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 OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org