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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:12:00 +0930

Re: REQ: Suggestions for Email on Linux

Netscape seems to handle mulitple ISPs OK.  It's
usually PPP that causes trouble.


In my experience however, reading your mail from
an IMAP server is a much better idea in the long run.

You could install imapd and fetchmail, and configure
fetchmail to deliver into different IMAP folders.

You can then use whatever IMAP-compatible client you
want.  Sometimes I use Netscape, sometimes pine,
sometimes emacs, and sometimes the SuperMail java
client.

The joy is that whatever client you use, the mail
remains the same.  Want to upgrade you mail client,
no problem.  Want to read e-mail remotely, no problem.

The pain is that none of these discrete packages interact
nicely at present, so it takes about a day of fiddling
to set up.

-- 
 Glen Turner                               Network Specialist
 Tel: (08) 8303 3936          Information Technology Services
 Fax: (08) 8303 4400         The University of Adelaide  5005
 Email: glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au           South Australia

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