From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38771 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Palm and Gnus Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:19:43 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <87zo7wsqm8.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <87d74u4r9g.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174581 24240 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25345 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 10:20:01 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 10:20:01 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958F92A833 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:19:45 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6681282196; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:19:43 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Ian Swainson's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:56:36 +0100") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) Original-Lines: 43 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38771 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38771 On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Ian Swainson wrote: > Daniel Pittman 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 -- They're much more interested in having a personal life, but they're having trouble figuring out how because they see the people ahead of them working 60 to 80 hours a week. -- Margaret Regan, Towers Perrin, on corporate recruits under 25