On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Robin - Bartow FL wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eben King eben01@verizon.net
> To: slug@nks.net
> Sent: 8/15/07 10:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Verizon's
>
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Robin - Bartow FL wrote:
>>>
>>> I stopped using ISPs for email purposes years ago due to limited email
>>> capacity, control, and functionality.
>>>
>>> Suggestions:
>>> 1. Filter any email containing your first or last name to your inbox. Most people you would want to hear from will address you by one or both.
>>> 2. White list all domains you are registered or affiliated with.
>>> 3. Remember that you can filter "out" or "in".
>>>
>>> Have you tried IMAP?
>>
>> I haven't. How do you do that with Pine?
>
> I have not used Pine.
>
> I just tried IMAP on incoming.verizon.net with Thunderbird and discovered
> IMAP is not supported. Need to back step that idea.
>
> If you have doubts in Verizon Spam Detector... you could just disable it
> and forward all mail to another service. This is what I do with latent
> "mailboxes@verizon.net".
Yeah, I went through all the *mail*, *pop*, and *imap* ports listed in
/etc/services, and the only one supported on incoming.verizon.net is pop3.
Maybe they have another (secret so far) machine which does imap. Why do the
forwarding? Does imap offer some benefit over pop when it's done that way?
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