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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:34:45PM -0500, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:19:58PM -0500, arao at honnu.com wrote: > > > > my intent is to get fetch mail to download my emails to my home > > machine on a scheduled manner to keep my server low on its disk > > usage , but I still want to use my ThunderBird as the email > > client. > > No, no one has ever tried to read mail that was already downloaded to > their machine. Hmm, what have I been doing with fetchmail and mutt all these years ;-) If ThunderBird can't access your local mail spool, you could always run a POP or IMAP server locally (which should probably be restricted to local access). It should be possible in this case to access your mail from Thunderbird. > They especially didn't use fetchmail or getmail to do it, because as > everyone knows, that's not a supported use for those programs. man fetchmail -David
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