[luau] Multiple E-Mail Accounts in KMail

[Warren Togami]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:09, Jim wrote:
> I used IMAP for years on Win with Pine,but shopping for a new ISP
> (Big Island)I found very few will allow it; most claim security...they 
> don't want you logged on to the mail server.Even my old ISP Aloha.net
> changed things and made it very painful to use IMAP,if you were reading
> for a period the server would break connection,although POP3 was fast 
> and friendly.Mozilla supports IMAP.
> 

What I do at home is the following.
1. fetchmail grabs mail from several of my POP3 accounts.  This is in
cron, so it occurs every 30 minutes.
2. fetchmail delivers to procmail, which has rules that tosses mail into
several folders for the many mailing lists that I subscribe.
3. Everything that doesn't deliver to a folder goes through
SpamAssassin, which uses a set  of genetic algorithm derived rules to
filter out spam.  It is around 99.9% effective in spam filtering.
4.  IMAP server for me and my family.  I can use Evolution, Mozilla,
Outlook, Outlook Express or any IMAP client interchangeably depending on
which operating system I am using.
5. Alternatively I can login through Squirrelmail, a web based IMAP
client now included in Red Hat 8.0.  You can easily install it onto any
Apache + PHP installation too.