From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 6 12:00:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA19893 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (twinlark.arctic.org [204.62.130.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA19884 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgaudet-list-freebsd-mobile@arctic.org) Received: (qmail 18052 invoked by uid 500); 6 Oct 1997 19:01:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:01:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Gaudet To: Mike Smith cc: John Polstra , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access In-Reply-To: <199710061107.UAA01562@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > This is exactly what you were describing above. You specifically > claim that you avoid taking your mail with you by leaving it on an > "internet accessible" server. Hotmail is "internet accessible", and in > fact is *more* accessible than you propose because you can access it > with any browser, rather than requring some nonexistent client software. I can still read mail on my server or on my laptop. On the server I can use whatever client suits me. i.e. telnet and pine. > Given that I have been advocating a specific form of "disconnected mail > reading", I would have to say that I have a pretty damn good idea of > what it's all about. 8) Your disconnected mail reading has no method of synchronizing your actions on your laptop copy of your mailbox with your server. This is essential to me, as I have no desire to read the same messages twice on all the mailing lists I read. I also like to have the "replied" annotations attached to mail I have replied to. > > What is needed here is both > > the ability to read mail from anywhere while online, and the ability to > > read and manipulate cached subset of your mail while offline. Go read > > about IMAP 4 disconnected mode if you haven't yet. > > I'll read about it in the feature set of a mailer, if and when it's > implemented. Until then, a vapourware standard is of no use to me. There are clients, just not for FreeBSD, or Linux. See www.imap.org. Dean