preferred email system

[John Baldwin]

On 30-May-2003 Paul Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:29:35AM -0400, Gray, David W wrote:
> 
>> I use mutt in a similar setup. It's handling of IMAP is, well, painful. It
> 
> Don't use the IMAP. Configure an MTA and where you can have mail delivered 
> direct. Where it needs to come off a remote mail server, grab a copy of 
> fetchmail and make it do it's voodoo. Having an MTA on your local machine 
> for just you is not just luxury - it's why you have Unix. :-)

I have found the Cyrus IMAP server quite robust and useful for my
needs especially in combination with server-side filtering and
sorting.  I can easily check my inboxes from BSD, OS X, and Windows
if need be.  It gives you the most flexibility.

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