Hard Mail Question

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:11:49PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Without using "leave mail on server" or "leave mail on server for x days" 
> is it possible after I have downloaded my email to my computer using pop3 
> to put it back so I can access it from a different computer.  Possibly ftp 
> it back to the server and copy it to my mail directory to redownload it? or 
> mabey install imap and place it in my inbox folder on my local drive... 
> would that throw it back on the server?
> 
> FreeBSD 4.10 and Sendmail

You could use UIDL on your pop3-client (e.g. fetchmail).  It keeps a
database of which mails have been downloaded already (using server-side
checksums), and that way you could leave all your mail on one central
server, downloading it on different clients (and downloading every mail
only once per client).  

Your .fetchmailrc would look something like this: 

poll <pop3-server> with protocol POP3 options uidl
	user <pop3-username> there with password <pop3-password>
	is <local-username> here options keep

GH