On 04/03/2015 02:33 PM, John Andersen wrote:
All email readers have to be instructed to read but not delete, except one. Got more than one computer, a smart-phone, a tablet? What a mess.
Its 2015. The world has moved to Imap.
I use Yahoo via Imap (with Tbird) and android it works great that way. See: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?64390-How-to-setup-KMail-with-Y...
Yah! Me-too! There is another way. Use fetchmail in POP-mode to a local store that you access via IMAP. I have a couple of antediluvian accounts with ISPs whose policy is that in order to get IMAP you have to purchase some upgraded package that includes a web site and database and all this is so much more than the deal i have with Dreamhost that it verges on extortion. So I stick with the low fee POP because that address is too widely known. Setting up a local server using Dovecot is marginally more complicated than installing openSUSE, but the amount of supporting documentation is much greater. Of course you can make it as complicated and challenging as you wish, but doesn't that go for any computer installation? I've chosen NOT to have a database-backed email repository, not to have a LDAP based NIS/SAMBA/RADIUS on my single workstation home system. KISS. But YMMV. Sendmail-Procmail-Postfix-Dovecot is comparatively easy to set up provided you don't do anything too esoteric. There are many HOW-TO documents that are formulaic. Follow the formula and get it to work before you try customizing -- don't aim for a highly customized set-up immediately. Get it working then make small, reversible, changes. Keep a record of what you do so you can (a) understand it, (b) repeat it, or (c) explain to use EXACTLY what you did if things go wrong. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org