How would I use MailMan in conjunction with a “primary” mailer on my home or office system?
We wish that there were other sources that we could reference that could explain the basics of using several different mailers at once. Unfortunately we don’t know of any. If you know of any good write-ups with suggestions for novice users on this subject please let us know. The key issue involved is configuring your mailer to leave its messages on the Internet mail server after it has downloaded them. If you receive a message from your boss on your computer at work and you decide that you would really rather go home and reply to the message after dinner, you can’t do that if your mailer at work deletes the message from the server after it checks the message. If you set your mailer at work to not delete the message from the server, when you get home and check your mail, the message will still be there waiting for you to reply to it. Using MailMan in conjunction with other mailers is no different. All that you need to do is configure all of your mailers to leave messages on the mail ser