Getting e-mail from GMail but without keeping messages

[Paul Smith]

On 2/16/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Yes, likewise Evolution when it is used as an e-mail client connected
> > to a MS Exchange Server: no message is locally stored.
>
> If you just didn't want to waste drive space, and didn't mind keeping
> things temporarily, you could fetch, read, and then use a filter to
> delete read mail before you quit.
>
> But we don't know why you don't want to store messages locally.

I do not want to store messages locally to minimize the risk of them
being spied by someone else. With the CustomizeGoogle extension of
Firefox, one can read GMail accounts with the https protocol, which
encrypts the communications between my machine and GMail servers.

Paul