[Dovecot] Feature request - Reduced View

Odhiambo WASHINGTON odhiambo.raburu at wananchi.com
Thu Aug 10 08:24:46 EEST 2006


* On 09/08/06 20:11 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
| Hi
| 
| I have a Nokia 770 which is a pocket sized Linux Wifi 800x600 tool.
| 
| I can easily search for and connect to WiFi hotspots and then look at  
| email in my home system (running Dovecot/Postfix).
| 
| This tool would work better if Dovecot would show only a subset of  
| the mail messages sitting in my home system (I only delete spam..).  
| Something like a sliding window that would show messages younger than  
| a week old (configurable slider horizon).
| 
| Is this a reasonable feature? Can it be done by just configuring the  
| existing system differently?
| 
| There are probably many users who access their mail with several  
| different systems during a day or week. A handy/cell phone with  
| email, or a pocket pda would have the same storage/access limitations  
| as the Nokia and their users would benefit from the same feature.

Hi Bob,

Dovecot is a server. Just get a good MUA on the Nokia 770, configured
as you want. There must be some lightweight MUA out there.


-Wash

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