Re: Taming hotmail (or how to handle pop3 accounts in Gnus)

[Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Before I set out on this quest however, is there any ideas or advice from
>> the experience here on how to efficiently and flexibly handle multiple
>> e-mail accounts through both POP and IMAP (with a preference for having
>> synchronised mailboxes accessible on-line, if possible also for POP)?
>
> From the resounding silence here, I think you can interpret the general
> feeling here as "don't use POP if you want to access your mail from
> several accounts".  :-)
>
> I'd switch to a provider that allows you to read the mail via IMAP.
> It's less pain in the long run.

Thanks for your sympathies, which are well needed in trying to get a
funcional-ish email setup with multiple accounts! While I would too
prefer "only IMAP on only 1 remote server", I am not ready to abandon all
legacy e-mail accounts. 

The plans to move to dovecot has been postponed as I ran into issues
with the multiple IMAP setup in dovecot and offline-imap.

For now I use IMAP directly from Gnus and fetchmail to pop hotmail to
the local spool which works excellent, with the added benefit that it
works searchable with nnmairix. Using dovecot would, I presume, allow
searches across all accounts simultaneously, which would be nice, but is
not critical enough to re-embark on this crusade.

-- 
Johnny