[Discuss] Email App

[brendan]

with thunderbird, go to the account settings control (right click on the 
account name and choose settings). go to synchronization & storage, and 
uncheck "keep messages for this account on this computer". that should 
stop it from downloading them all.

alternately, check out the sylpheed mail client 
(http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/), which is lighter weight than 
thunderbird and has an option to not download messages automatically as 
well. on low power computers, i use sylpheed over thunderbird as it's 
less resource intensive.

On 14-06-17 10:55 AM, John Blomfield wrote:
> I use Thunderbird email client on my main desktop box to access my 
> Shaw email account. I have it set up so that I click ""Get Mail" to 
> download mail and Shaw "removes from further downloads" that mail from 
> the Shaw server, although you can go on to Shaw and get it back I 
> think for 30 days or something like that. On my Android tablet and 
> phone I have an email App that views mail on the Shaw server without 
> downloading i.e no need to use webmail.shaw.ca on a web browser.
>
> My question is, does anyone know of a email client that works like the 
> Android app that I can have sitting on the desktop of my Netbook and 
> displays emails as they arrive but does not download them, although 
> the Android app allows you to clean out the old emails from view 
> without affecting what's on the Shaw server?
>
> John
>