Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:50:41 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-freebsd-mobile@arctic.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access Message-ID: <ML-3.3.876239441.6838.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95dg3.971006115546.17869A-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>
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> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > ... > > > What is needed here is both > > > the ability to read mail from anywhere while online, and the ability to > > > read and manipulate cached subset of your mail while offline. Go read > > > about IMAP 4 disconnected mode if you haven't yet. > > > > I'll read about it in the feature set of a mailer, if and when it's > > implemented. Until then, a vapourware standard is of no use to me. > > There are clients, just not for FreeBSD, or Linux. See www.imap.org. There -ARE- clients that run on FreeBSD and Linux. Not as many as for M$ Win* or Mac; but they are there. Pine provides a tty interface, ML provides a reasonably nice GUI. Netscape Communicator (Messenger) provides the all-singing all-dancing polished GUI, with encryption and digital signature support. ... -Pat
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