Re: Local mail on OS X

Hi Sammy,

On Feb 15, 2005, at 15:19, sammy ominsky wrote:

> It seems that ZO=CB was designed for the sort of person who leaves =
mail=20
> on the mail server forever,

Hmmm... well... kind of... however, keep in mind that anything=20
can/could be turned into a server... one could imagine turning Mail.app=20=

into a diminutive POP3 server... think in terms of pipes...

> and relies heavily on the server's spam filter.

Perhaps... personally, I don't use any spam filtering of any sort as=20
far as ZO=CB goes as it's simply not necessary...

>   I do neither (I have over a GB of mail archived locally, can you=20
> imagine what that would do to most people's server quotas?!)

Well... at least it's under your very own control... therefore you=20
could even turn those "dumb" local mailboxes into something more, er,=20
accessible if you really wanted to...

> This would be a great solution, but I can't seem to make it work.  ZO=CB=
=20
> seems to decide what to forward based on the sender, not the=20
> recipient.  I'm thinking more of a trap address, so that with ZO=CB =
set=20
> as my SMTP server (forwarding to the external one), any mail from me=20=

> to (for example) [email protected] would not be forwarded.  I set this =
up=20
> in ZO=CB, but it still forwards because my real account, as the sender=20=

> is set to forward. :/

ZO=CB uses primarily the identity under which you identify yourself to=20=

the built-in server... then, it tries to match an email account...=20
perhaps you might want to consider setting up two different users in=20
ZO=CB itself: one for archiving and one for forwarding...

> I really like ZO=CB's functionality, if only I could find a way to=20
> configure it like this, it'd really be quite a wonderful app.

So may ways to skin a cat :)

Cheers,

R.



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