Mail on samba shares

[Kevin Colby]

Diego Cimarosa wrote:
>
> It is possible configure Outlook to leave mail on server?

Better than any file-sharing setup for this is to use a protocol
developed for exactly this situation:  IMAP.

Actually, I don't know if Outlook even supports IMAP.
(If it doesn't, that's just sad.)  Change your mail client
from a POP client to an IMAP client and check /etc/inetd.conf
to see if imapd will be running (or just try it).

With IMAP, your incoming mailbox really is on the server,
and you can save to server-based folders.  Pine and elm will
play nice with the IMAP setup too, so that you have telnet
access to saved mail still.

It's _so_ much better than POP.

        - Kevin Colby
          kevinc at grainsystems.com