Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:11:47 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: getting messages from remote mail box Message-ID: <42F292A3.5090801@u.washington.edu>
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Leonard Zettel wrote: > All my incoming mail goes to a unix box which > I access over the internet using kmail. > > I also occasionally get at it using pine. > > Here is my problem: after I use pine > kmail will no longer recognize the presence > of any message that was there when pine > looked at them. How do i reset the message status > so that kmail can handle them as usual? > > Thanks > -LenZ- > > The issue is most likely because your email account is POP[3] based. Either switch over to IMAP, forward to a specific address that does have IMAP capabilities, or use fetchmail to fetch your mail and then setup your clients to read from the flat file for your mail/setup a server that serves it strictly to localhost. For more information about POP3 and IMAP, see <http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.brief.html>; -Garrett
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