Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:48:39 +0200, Michael Schuster wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 15:21 Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:11 AM RW via freebsd-questions <
> > freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > You can use gmail with a separate email client if you like. The
> > > servers support pop/imap/smtp.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Case in point I use gmail not because of its ease of use per se (even
> > though it is better then most standalone MUA's) I use it because it is an
> > off-site backup of years worth of correspondence that is too valuable to
> > worry about losing in a hardware failure.
> >
> 
> You can configure most email clients to leave messages on the server...

Both POP3 and IMAP support it. The limit of course is
the storage capacity associated with your mail account.


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