From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Oct 4 00:47:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA04225 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 00:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04220 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 00:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00300; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 17:14:33 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710040744.RAA00300@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Polstra cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 1997 12:03:17 MST." <199710031903.MAA06823@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 17:14:30 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What I'd like to do is to be able to access my mail more or less > interchangeably whether I'm on my main machine or on my laptop. IMAP > seems ideal for that. But as far as I can tell, the only Unix MUA > that works with IMAP is Pine. I'm looking into Pine and it might turn > out to be just fine for my needs. But I thought I'd ask what others > do about this. In particular, have any of you found a way to use exmh > with IMAP? A better solution is to keep all your mail on your laptop; I suck mine from several sources using fetchmail, and masquerade on the outbound leg so that mail looks like its coming from my server. Then when I'm in the office, I disable APM, keep the lid on the laptop closed and run exmh remotely on a real screen. An added bonus is that you can suck your mail down, hang up, reply to everything and then when you're done reconnect and run the mail queue. Very handy if you're fetching over a link that costs real money. mike