From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 06:29:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BAA16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:29:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE6243D1D for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:29:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (cpe-66-8-190-99.hawaii.rr.com [66.8.190.99])j0C6TlkM019413; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:29:47 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Marella To: Daniel Bye In-Reply-To: <20050111103848.GA23691@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <1105332185.1028.4.camel@p4> <20050111103848.GA23691@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:24:35 -1000 Message-Id: <1105511075.746.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS export of evolution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:29:50 -0000 On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:38 +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:43:05PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: > > > > I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 > > Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be > > shared at all of the computers. > > > > I would like to have the ability to retrieve mail from any of the > > computers I happen to be logged into. I have tried various permutations > > of exporting /home, /home/reg-user, and /home/reg-user/.evolution and I > > always get the same error when trying to read mail. > > If your main concern is being able to read/send email from any host on > the network, why not run an IMAP server? > > I use use courier-imap from the ports on a machine that, among many > other things, also exports nfs file systems. It's easy to get working, > and works really well for a small setup. If you don't run your own smtp > server, you can retrieve mail from your ISP's pop or imap servers using > fetchmail, passing messages to procmail, which can deliver them in a > format that courier-imapd can understand. > > Just a thought. > > HTH > > Dan > Thanks Dan This will be the next project I will be doing. Robert -- Robert Marella