Getting e-mail from GMail but without keeping messages

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 21:00:32 UTC 2007


On 2/15/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/15/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> > > Is there some e-mail program to get e-mail from GMail, but without
> > > keeping any message stored in the local hard disk?
> >
> > You mean, like, a web browser?
>
> Yes, likewise Evolution when it is used as an e-mail client connected
> to a MS Exchange Server: no message is locally stored.

That's called IMAP.  GMail only does POP.


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