On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 06:48:27PM +0200, highskywhy@yahoo.de wrote:
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>
> Ok
> >
> > However, mutt was originally written to live in a larger ecosystem,
> > and many of us do not use its pop or smtp features directly.
> *
> What does mean directly?
Meaning, that as Cameron explains later in the email, rather than using
this built in smtp or pop feature of later versions of mutt, we use third
party programs to do that.
> >
> > Instead, we run a separate program to collect email, usually using
> > POP. Programs such as fetchmail and getmail are common choices for
> > this. I run "getmail" regularly to collect my email and deliver it
> > to my "spool" folder. (And run a mail filing program to move messages
> > out of there into various mail folders for various lists etc.)
> >*
> So
> to use other programs than mutt is common?
>
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