On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:29, Chris Aitken wrote:

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Tick the box that says 'leave messages on server' in Nestcape email options (also delete deleted mail on server if you have it). Then you can access the same mail from as many clients as you like (with the same settings as shown above).

Interesting that it took a while for someone to suggest the lowest tech solution of all! Not that I'm complaining, as I think procmail, fetchmail et al are in my very near future. : )

There's a reason it wasn't suggested before, see the problems that you are having ...

I was doing what you suggested but, for a reason unbeknownst to me, one machine is not playing nice in the sandbox: Even though I have the setting you suggest (along with 'when deleting a message locally, remove it from the server') the mail does stay on the server, but the same mail keeps loading over and over. So, I get

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