On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 20:05 +0200, kai wrote: > >> I need to access my mail boxes from two desktops on a local network, > >> windows and CentOS. > >> > > Why not use soemthign like thunderbird and connect to the mail server > > with the imap protocol? Maybe i am missing something here. > > > Thank you for answering. > > No you don't miss anything, I really don't now, but I've had some bad > experience when switching from established smtp to imap, and mails where > lost. SMTP is for sending, imap is for reading, and is designed to allow access from multiple clients. Perhaps you mean switching from pop to imap. > I want my mail boxes to be on 1 place and not deleted when loaded and > synchronised, additionally where I can easily back up. That's what imap does. > I was thinking to use fetchmail or similar, I think it can collect > several smtp account to one user, but I haven't set that up before and > also I think it collects everything in to one inbox, correct me if I am > wrong. If some of the accounts allow pop but not imap, you can use fetchmail to collect them on a server that does have imap. Or set up forwarding to the imap server. > It would be very interesting to her what others do when they have > multiply smtp accounts and multiple access are needed. IMAP is the best approach. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com