Re: Palm and Gnus

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Ian Swainson wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> 
>> 1. Instally an IMAP server on your machine (Cyrus or Courier, not
>>    UW-IMAP).
>> 2. Migrate your existing groups into IMAP.
>> 3. Configure Gnus to talk to the IMAP server.
>> 4. Use an IMAP client on the Palm device to work with the mail.
>>
>> That way you get the disconnected operation and the syncing and
>> everything done for you with a solution that others maintain (IMAP),
>> rather than writing it yourself.
> 
> Hmm. This is a great idea. However, my mail sources are both POP3 -
> what I want is a program which will get all my POP3 mail and pass it
> on to the IMAP server. Is this what fetchmail does, or is that
> overkill? 

It's what fetchmail does, and it's pretty much /all/ that fetchmail
does. This is the job it was designed for, basically.

> Will fetchmail pass the mail from POP3 to the IMAP server?

Not directly, no. What it will do is fetch email from a POP3 mailbox and
then feed it to something else that will push it into your IMAP server.

This might be an SMTP-capable MTA on your machine (such as sendmail and
co) or an IMAP-server specific tool (such as the deliver client in
Cyrus.)

It's not that hard to get working and, better than that, it's fully
documented. Mmmm, documented. :)

If you have trouble getting it going, ask around and you should find it
easy to get help.

     Daniel

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