[plug] email left on ISP's server

[Matt Kemner]

Hi Gavin

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, quoth Gavin Chester:

> 1/ the remote host has to provide IMAP and I access it with evolution
> setup for IMAP delivery; or,

This is probably the better solution of the two, providing the ISP
provides a decent implementation of IMAP.

> 2/ I access my remote host with sendmail (?) and run IMAP on as a local
> service (eg, dovecote) and then local delivery client access.

I think you mean fetchmail, and that should work fine also - providing you
have a 1:1 mapping of mailboxes (ie a mailbox at the ISP for every local
mailbox)

A better (more flexible) solution (if you have the knowledge or are
willing to learn) would be to ask your ISP for a static IP, and run a
mailserver directly on your machine (such as sendmail, or better yet -
postfix) and have the mail delivered to you, rather than "fetching" it
from anywhere.

Kind Regards,

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