The only problem with IMAP is the mail is stored on the server, which at the 
moment is an undesirable trait.  I get the same basic functionality by having 
several POP accounts.

On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:17 am, you wrote:
> On your mail server, or the machine you read your mail from, setup imaps.
> mkdir ~/mail. Use fetchmail to get mail from other servers. Use procmail to
> sort your mail into folders under ~/mail. Configure imap mail clients to
> use ~/mail as your folder prefix.
>
> At anyrate, kmail seems to use mbox format. So you could use any imap
> client or pine or whatever to access kmail's folders. I perfer just using
> IMAP so I can switch mail clients on a whim and not worry about losing
> mail. :)