Rolf wrote:

> Did I ever mention that, in 1993, I got 'into' Linux, and it was all
> because of e-mail.... 
> 
> The idea of putting my e-mail on to a desktop machine seems so stupid to
> me now that I have been doing it differently for years.... let me
> explain... 
> 
> If you have your e-mail stored on a desktop machine you can't access it
> (easily) from any other machine (or different software on the same
> machine). You are tied to a particular mail reader,  and everything is
> risky. 
> 
> On the other hand, I have an IMAP server at home. I can access my mail
> from any one of the computers I use (2 at home, at work, and I can also
> access it via web-mail). The concept of having to go to one particular
> machine to read my e-mail, as I say, seems stupid.

Whoever thinks this makes sense but doesn't want to change the OS and all
applications that rely on it, may want to check out e.g.

  Mercury <http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm>
  Macallan <http://macallan.club.fr/MMS/index.html>
  Hamster <http://www.arcorhome.de/newshamster/tgl/misc/hamster_en.html>

All three are free mail servers supporting IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, running on
Win2k+ systems. 

Gerhard

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