From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80862 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Taming hotmail (or how to handle pop3 accounts in Gnus) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:06:08 +0000 Message-ID: <87obub32tb.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <871uskgqm5.fsf@gmx.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326215738 22188 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2012 17:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Johnny , ding@gnus.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29144@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 10 18:15:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkfIM-0000zC-D4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:15:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RkfI7-0008DV-MR; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:15:19 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RkfI6-0008DL-Ji for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:15:18 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RkfI2-0001HB-34 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:15:18 -0600 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.42]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RkfHz-0005OC-Ut for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:15:12 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2012 17:14:55 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO deusexmachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu006) with SMTP; 10 Jan 2012 18:14:55 +0100 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/mR3AaetDm39kU5y6yTJ90n+TPQjtw0OP8qiGMWt hg/NEfF/G/Yo3x In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:59:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80862 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Johnny 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