In article <200702012109.26128.kuiskers@xxxxxxxxx>,
kwhiskerz{ <kuiskers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On February 1, 2007, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >
> > You don't forward to your provider. You pull directly to your home
> > linux box's mail spool using getmail or fetchmail, or directly to your
> > KMail by setting up entries for the various POP services you'll have
> > (hotmail, whatever).
> >
> Hey, I never thought of that :-) That saves a lot of time, instead of
> going to all of those web sites (well, 3 sites: gmail, yahoo and msn).
> I think I will try getting the mail from within kmail. I am not sure if I
> am up to setting up fetchmail or getmail.
> What do you think? Is this the best way to go, or should I learn those
> programs?
The other option is to use Thunderbird and the webmail extension. This
allows you to fetch email from different webmail services such as hotmail
and yahoo, you can also send emails with hotmail too. Googlemail or Gmail
can be set up to allow POP3 access which also can be used with Thunderbird.
