[nos-bbs] interesting - pop mail to read WW area :)

[Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty]

Yes, Maildir should be advantageous for jnos. Faster and probably safer and less (possible) issues with indexing
with large mail boxes. I use it with my smtp server in Linux.

Bob VE3TOK

On 2020-10-29 23:55, M Langelaar wrote:
> My so called WORLD area for bulletins is @ww
>
> Out of a hunch, decided to put an entry into my /jnos/popusers file :
>
>   ww:mypassword:
>
> then setup thunderbird for pop3, leave messages on server, user 'ww'.
>
> Dirty way to download all the bulletins to thunderbird, a bit slow if you
> have 720 of them, so download headers only, still a bit slow, so maybe
> more the reason for me to rewrite some of that to store each message
> in it's own file then one huge file for all of them - maildir vs mbox ... Not
> the first time I've thought about it, the last time was years ago :(
>
> Anyways, in case anyone is curious, that actually works if you need
> something, even if it means setting up a separate email account just for
> the one ww 'user' or whatever other bulletin area you're interested in.
>
> Maiko
>
>
>
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