tabanna
any there any 'plus points'/benefits, for a stand-alone PC using fetchmail, rather than pop3 ?
It depends on which client(s) you use. If you always use the same client, and it is able to collect mail from a POP3 server, and you intend to keep using that same client till the end of eternity, you could just as well do without fetchmail. However, since most of these clients store the incoming mail in their own format, which cannot be read by other clients, you will most often have the choice between staying with that client or losing your old mail. If the client you are using now can access IMAP accounts, it can be a better solution to use fetchmail to collect the mail from your ISP and then have the client acces the mail through IMAP. I think Netscape can do this, and I know that Pine can. This means that you can read your mail in Pine if you (for whatever reason) don't want to run X right now and read it in Netscape Messenger if you are running X. If you delete a message in one it will also be deleted in the other. (You actually use the same mailbox in both clients.) Another benefit is that fetchmail can be run unattended from a script or be set to run as a daemon. It can even be set to only try collecting mail if the interface is already open. Regards Ole -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/