[svlug] NS Mail setup

[javilk@polly.mall-net.com]

> >     Seems to me that if I specify /var/spool/mail/accountname in the
> > various forms that Netscape shows when I ask about mail preferences,
> > nothing happens.  And I have no idea what Imap4 and other such stuff
> > means.
> 
> IMAP4 is a protocol to allow remote access to messages.  While there is
> some way to use the "movemail" program that Netscape provides to make your
> mail accessible to it, you might want to get either a POP3 server or an
> IMAP4 server, and then run it on localhost, only accepting connections
> from localhost, and then say that your mail server is "localhost".  Then
> Netscape will "download" your mail and put it where it expects to see it.

   You mean I need a whole mail server to deal with Netscape???   Isn't
there a simpler solution???  Or do they use a closed proprietary format
for their mail folders???

- javilk at mall-net.com ---------------------------
MS asks "Where do you want to go?"
Linux asks "What do you want to do?"
It is doers, not goers, who built this world!
Member: http://www.svlug.org/


--
echo "unsubscribe svlug" | mail majordomo at svlug.org
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to unsubscribe