Re: Many email clients in parallel

[Asgeir]

Why don't get your mails with GNUS and let him sort them using the To/Cc
headers ? That's more simple but enougth efficient for a daily usage...

Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> writes:
> thruxton <psmerdon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to use Gnus to read email/newsgroups on my ubuntu laptop
>> but am unsure what extra software I need to install to do so.
>> I have home email, work email and gmail/yahoo mail to configure, most
>> use ssl on the smtp end, do I need utilities like starttls or msmtp
>> installed?
>>
>>  Do I need fetchmail & sendmail or does Gnus manage all of these
>> things?
>>
>> I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and the emacs-snapshot that includes Gnus v5.13
>> I am comfortable with fetchmail getting my emails and pointing Gnus to
>> my inbox, but as for sending email and using helper utilites I am not
>> sure what to install.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice you can give me.
>
> Would you like to create configuration allowing you to use *multiple*
> email clients/news readers in parallel?
>
> e.g. 
> 1) I prefer to install "local IMAP server" (e.g. dovecot) and use
>    fetchmail to download messages from remote mailboxes into local 
>    imap folders (with sieve/procmail filtering and sorting).
> 2) You can use leafnode to download usenet newsgroups (from many
>    sources) to local news spool also accessible via nntp

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Asgeir