Email

[Erica Peterson]

Thunderbird also works perfectly - I use IMAP.  In Thunderbird's account
synchronization settings, I have it keep a local copy of all my mail,
but it doesn't move anything off gmail's servers unless I specifically
delete the messages.

Cheers,
Erica

On 06/18/2010 11:10 AM, 1ballistic1 at gmail.com wrote:
> If it's asking for a client, Evolution and Gmail both are known to work
> (I would assume the other do too?)
>
> As far as not losing emails, just set the account up as POP instead of
> IMAP, and check the option to "keep a copy on the server".
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 23:14 -0400, Doug Stewart wrote:
>   
>> I use Gmail for my emails.
>> I am also registered in "the linux counter"  #206392 Doug
>> I was trying to add my new machine to my profile, and I downloaded a
>> script called "machine-update".
>> When I run this it tells me that I don't have an MTA installed.
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> What should I install that will work with Gmail?  I don't want it to
>> try and remove any mail from my Gmail .
>>
>> Doug Stewart
>>
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