On Mon Feb14'22 08:34:39AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
From: Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:34:39 +1100 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management
On 13Feb2022 13:02, c. marlow fedora@cwm030.com wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:11:15 +1100 Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au wrote:
I read my email with mutt (a terminal based mail reader). It can talk directly to POP3 or IMAP if you want to leave your email upstream, but I use it locally on my laptop.
I've tried ALPINE before and I found it hard to use.
But I kinda liked it though.
I've always wanted to know, where does your POP email get stored if you're using a email client via the terminal?
Depends on the client. The client inherently has to download any email it doesn't have, so there will be some local storage. But in principle it can leave the email at the server.
POP3's not great for that - there's only one serverside mail folder, not much state (I think you can mark things as read maybe - or maybe that too is client side). _If_ you're keeping your email server side, IMAP is a better choice.
Most people using POP3 with mutt do not have mutt do the POP3 stuff - they collect it regularly from the server with a tool like fetchmail or getmail or my own "pop3" tool (which has a vast user base of 1, I think)
I am tempted to send your IPO soaring. What/how does your pop3 tool work? It seems to have only 4 lines of code, but I have no idea what it can do:-)
For the record, I use fetchmail on multiple accounts and then procmail. Three cheers for local email!
Ranjan