If you have to use pop for some reason, you could fetch your mail to gmail: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288 Then download it with whatever client you want to use via IMAP: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/bin/topic.py?topic=12913 The gmail imap can be slow at times, but usually works fine. Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Use IMAP, that way you get the best of both worlds.
An email client interface and preparation of email offline coupled with online, backed up email and webmail access at a pinch.
2008/6/13 Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com>:
Good reports filtered down to me about Thunderbird and Evolution so I installed them and set everything up and neither of them can hookup up to my popmail accounts. All the settings are exactly the same as the Kmail settings and Kmail hooks in and downloads everything no problems Obviously running on OpenSuSE 10.3. What have I missed? With the way a lot of people work these days, I'd recommend switching to a web-based email system. I have found Gmail to be fairly good. Not perfect, but it does everything I need. Gets email from other
2008/6/13 Graham Lauder <yorick_(a)openoffice.org>: pop3 systems.
You ought to know the advantages ... (a) Access from any computer, any OS (b) Backup is taken care of (I hope!) (c) Can use filters to presort your email And the disadvantage is having to be online to read email.
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