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Is it possible to use BOTH Pine and Mail.app on the same mailboxes ?
Authored by: ojf on Aug 05, '03 01:09:23PM

Yes it is -- but my solution may not address your problem. POP mail was never really meant to be shared but you'll have no problems if your mail is kept on an IMAP server. This isn't terribly exotic technology - many ISPs use IMAP as their preferred method of getting mail. Anyway, one of the nice things about IMAP is that your mail is stored on the server and several mail clients (pine, OS X Mail, Netscape, etc.) can access it at the same time. Keeping the mail on the server keeps everything synchronized.

An additional benefit is that IMAP allows you to have a secure connection -- use this an you can send and recieve mail from any network. Since your connection is authenticated the smtp server doesn't care if you aren't on its network.

Of course, if you have to use POP mail... well, at least it's a fun sounding name. =) Good luck.



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Is it possible to use BOTH Pine and Mail.app on the same mailboxes ?
Authored by: ygor on Aug 06, '03 11:05:20AM

IMAP is a wonderful solution, I would agree.

HOWEVER most ISP's have a low storage limit of your stuff on their server. Mine has a 10Mb limit. My local mailboxes are in the low hundreds of megabytes.

(Note to self: Clean out mailboxes)

So, unless you are fortunate enough to have access to an IMAP server with lots of elbow room, it is not, dsadly THE solution to this discussion.



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