From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 7 08:51:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA05352 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA05347 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xIbuO-0000Ae-00; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:50:52 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA13592; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:50:42 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access To: Dean Gaudet cc: Mike Smith , John Polstra , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: 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: > ... > > > 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. There -ARE- clients that run on FreeBSD and Linux. Not as many as for M$ Win* or Mac; but they are there. Pine provides a tty interface, ML provides a reasonably nice GUI. Netscape Communicator (Messenger) provides the all-singing all-dancing polished GUI, with encryption and digital signature support. ... -Pat