[GLLUG] can PINE read Evolutions mbox'es?

Mark Tarquini mark at iametarq.com
Fri Apr 16 17:53:25 EDT 2004


hmm, looks like my problem is, all your great ideas are beyond my abilities as a
newbie ;)

I'll at it to my list of projects =)  thank you for the detailed reply though!

-Mark

Quoting Edward Glowacki <glowack2 at msu.edu>:

> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:04, Mark Tarquini wrote:
> > Is it possible to setup PINE to read Evolution's mbox files?
> 
> Dunno about that one.
> 
> > It would be heaven like if it were possible to have PINE read my mbox
> > from evolution so that when i ssh to my box when out of town i could
> > read my email that way.
> > 
> > I did a google search and it appears it cannot be done with POP3, but it
> > can be done with IMAP. =(
> 
> I've had pretty good success using IMAP with a combination of mail
> clients, including Evolution, Mozilla, and IMP webmail.  I forward all
> my mail to my own server (running Sendmail), then use
> procmail+spamassassin to filter everything (mailing lists into folders,
> spam, etc.), and Courier IMAP server to dish out messages.  No matter
> where I access it, all the messages are filtered the same and have the
> same status of read/replied/deleted/etc, and spam is always neatly
> tucked away in the SPAM folder.  Definitely glad I set that whole system
> up, makes reading email a lot more convenient, and it should work with
> any email client that supports imap.  It's definitely a lot cleaner and
> more reliable solution than trying to get PINE to mess around with
> Evolution's downloaded mail folders.
> 
> If you're worried about security and you don't want to run your own mail
> server, you might try using "fetchmail" (I think that's the one
> anyway...) instead to download your mail from the POP3 server to your
> machine, then run it through bogofilter or whatever to clean it up and
> get rid of spam.  Then you could set up an IMAP server, but restrict it
> to only accept connections from that machine.  That way Evolution would
> still work on that machine and you could also SSH in to that machine and
> read mail with PINE.  
> 
> I guess it all depends on how much work you want to do up-front to get
> the system in place.  Personally, I'm glad I did the work, but it also
> went pretty smoothly for me.  Your mileage may vary... =)
> 
> -ED
> 
> -- 
> Edward Glowacki			glowack2 at msu.edu
> A PBS mind in an MTV world. 
> 	-- Author unknown
> 





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