From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 9 16:23:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FD5637B956 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 31911 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2000 23:23:05 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 9 Jul 2000 23:23:05 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA08821; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:23:03 -0700 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ssh from FreeBSD laptop to view mail References: <20000708144300.D183@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <20000709130459.A394@dialin-client.earthlink.net> From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Sun, 9 Jul 2000 13:05:00 -0700" Date: 09 Jul 2000 15:03:33 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 28 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Crist J. Clark" writes: > > That did not come across to me in the first mail. So a wrapper script, Looking at it all laid out in this thread I can see why. It was confused on my part. I didn't really see that I was talking in two direction until you gently pointed it out. Sounds like a `quantum mechanics' theory the way I was presenting it. Making things overly complex as usual... thanks for the script. > > #!/bin/sh > > REMOTE=${0:-defaulthost} > > scp $REMOTE:/var/spool/mail/$USER Mail/inbox > > mutt -f Mail/inbox > > Would do the trick? This wouldn't quite be right but close. All I really need to do is copy the incoming spool (use procmail to make copies of all incoming on the parent) then scp that copied spool to laptop, deleting it on the parent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message