On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

I've worked for quite a few ISPs and "leave mail on server" is basically a recipe for disaster on both client and server.

The pop protocol is brain-dead simple so I've always assumed that the problems were on the Outlook side, you're probably right that it might be ok with a sane email client.

I trust your judgement and I appreciate very much that you are sharing this with us. I have never used Outhouse (or allesschluck as I like to call it - means swallow everything) with this combination.

Still pop3 only offers a single folder (inbox), imap is a vastly better solution for someone wishing to share their email between multiple clients. You can have all of your email folders including Sent and Draft folders available in all clients (even web clients) by using imap, I've never heard of functionality close to that no-matter what ugly hacks people make with pop.

I didn't hack it it just happens to work for me ! ;-) You are right, imap is more powerful, but many (many many many) people do not want/need imap's features.

P.S. postfix doesn't include a pop server.

You are right, I'm using pop3d from the pop/fetchmail package. I also have imap etc but since it all works so well for me I never saw a reason to set it up. Peter -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml