Re: Mutt and mailboxes
-- Keith G. Murphy <keithmur@mindspring.com> wrote
(on Thursday, 03 October 2002, 11:08 AM -0500):
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> >-- David P James <dpjames@rogers.com> wrote
> >(on Wednesday, 02 October 2002, 11:05 PM -0400):
> >
> >>I've recently started using mutt remotely when I'm on campus to check
> >>for email that Mozilla is automatically downloading to my Debian box at
> >>home
> >
> >Not to be contrary, but why are you having Mozilla do the downloading?
> >Fetchmail is designed for this... and once it has retrieved the mail for
> >you, you could have any of your mail clients look at it directly on your
> >machine easily, as it would be in a standard place.
> >
> And to increase the beauty, use some IMAP server to serve up the
> fetchmail'ed messages. That way, remote access from anywhere with all
> kinds of mail clients becomes possible, along with a consistent and safe
> view of all your folders.
>
> courier w/ssl (forget the package name) is a beautiful way to go. Oh,
> yes, you could also then use squirrelmail + apache-ssl so that you'd
> have web access from anywhere.
>
> Like Matthew said, "just a thought".
I actually do all this, too (except the squirrelmail part -- I just use
mail2web with the IMAP options for web access). It *is* a beautiful
setup -- can't recommend it highly enough!
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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