a series of stupid questions about kmail
Jim Herrmann
Jim at ItDepends.com
Sat Feb 23 05:50:03 CST 2002
Eric,
You can use Kmail to get mail from POP or IMAP mail servers. I'm not sure if
the internet based mail programs allow direct access with a fat client. I
know Netscape does. Kmail, of course, can retrieve mail from as many servers
as you want, and put the results in different folders. It's great at that.
I say loss the Hotmail account. That's a M$-Passport account. There are
plenty of other web based free options.
Having your own domain definately has it's advantages. I love having mine,
itdepends.com. I have it hosted at hostrocket.com. I don't even really use
it as a website very much. I mostly use the mail and mailing lists. For
example, when I sign up for a service on the web, I use something that
identifies who I'm giving my address too at my domain, i.e.
passport at itdepends.com when I was forced to set up a passport account to be
able to download a song that I had already paid for.
HTH,
Jim
On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:34 am, Eric Gilliland wrote:
> Hello All,Let me preface this message by saying please forgive my
> ignorance. I have some questions about kmail and other Linux mail programs.
> I use web-based email (hotmail and yahoo). Is it possibe for me to set up
> any of the KDE mail programs so I can use those as a mail handler, or does
> this require a standard mail server? Can I set up my machine as a mail
> server itself, just to handle my mail, or would I require a domain name to
> do this? Are there any email programs I could use with hotmail to get my
> web-based email? I am reading the kmail manual, but I appreciate any help
> I could get.
>
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