From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 3 12:03:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05682 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05671 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06823 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 12:03:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710031903.MAA06823@austin.polstra.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Seamless nomadic e-mail access Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 12:03:17 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I use exmh to read my mail, and I like it pretty well. Now I'm starting to travel some, so I'm looking for the best way to access my mail when I'm on the road. The raw MH commands leave me cold. I tried running exmh on the local machine with the display going over a PPP link to the X server on my laptop. That's really too slow to be reasonable, surprise surprise. 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? John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth