> or use fetchmail to pull my mail from my POP (why cant ISP's use
> IMAP?!?) mail account.
Because the only imap server that'll serve old-fashioned single-file mail
folders is wu-imapd, which is a) buggy as hell, b), slow as hell, and c)
slows things to a crawl on the server it's running on. The other imap servers
out there require Maildir-format mail folders, which chew up your inodes like
crazy and thus aren't suitable for an ISP's mail server.
Since I run my own mail server and only have five or six people using it, I
can run imap on it. But it does get very slow when dealing with messages with
large attachments, or with very large folders.
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Eric Lee Green
mailto:eric@badtux.org
Unix/Linux/Storage Software Engineer needs job --
see
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