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svlug@svlug.org Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:44:52 -0700 From: hvrietsc@yahoo.com To: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> Subject: Re: MUA woes (was Re: [svlug] MUA-hahaha. ) On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:24PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote: > This thread has reminded me that I've been meaning to ask... > > I currently use EXMH and fetchmail, in order to read mail locally on my > workstation and at home. That means that when at work, my home (ISP) mail > is not readily available, and vice-versa. But the reason I do this is that > I get a *lot* of mail, due to a number of technical mailing lists, > work-related automatic mail, etc. However, since both my work e-mail and > ISP e-mail are IMAP-accessible (from here, at least; can't get to work > e-mail outside the firewall) I'd like to use a mailer that can handle mail > remotely. > > But the thing is, my current set-up lets me filter with a great deal of > flexibility. I have no desire to try and wade through everything in only > one (or two) inboxen. I've toyed around with mail clients ranging from > Netscape to Balsa to Evolution, and while they all seem to handle IMAP, I > just must be missing the bus on filtering. I currently use procmail to file > mail based on the headers. And it ends up filed into any of about 30 > different folders. Is this possible with any of the previously-mentioned > tools? I don't mind if the mail isn't physically relocated to actual > folders, I'd be happy if it just looks like it, to make reading it that > much easier. why not run procmail and all the filter stuff on your main computer and have it stick the stuff into imapfolders, then you can use any of the imap emailers to read the stuff on all your other computers. so procmail for filtering and something else for reading: isn't that what *nix is all about? === Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 19:26:53 -0700 From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> To: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> Cc: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: MUA woes (was Re: [svlug] MUA-hahaha. ) On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:46:24PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote: > This thread has reminded me that I've been meaning to ask... > I currently use EXMH and fetchmail, in order to read mail locally on my > workstation and at home. That means that when at work, my home (ISP) mail > is not readily available, and vice-versa. But the reason I do this is that > I get a *lot* of mail, due to a number of technical mailing lists, > work-related automatic mail, etc. However, since both my work e-mail and > ISP e-mail are IMAP-accessible (from here, at least; can't get to work > e-mail outside the firewall) I'd like to use a mailer that can handle mail > remotely. Yeah, this kind of sucks. I host my mail server at my house and use SSH to remotely read mail, so no mail ever has to travel over a POP connection and thus undo the filtering. I am typing this only 100 feet away (by wire) from the mail server, but I would be doing it just the same way at school or anywhere else where I had access to a SSH client (including a Java one on the web). === Message: 4 To: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> cc: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: MUA woes (was Re: [svlug] MUA-hahaha. ) In-Reply-To: Message from "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:46:24 PDT." <200010040046.e940kOS14794@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> References: <200010040046.e940kOS14794@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 19:32:22 -0700 Message-ID: <21815.970626742@kanga.nu> From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> Sender: svlug-admin@lists.svlug.org Precedence: bulk List-Id: discussion list for the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group. <svlug.lists.svlug.org> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:46:24 -0700 Randy J Ray <rjray@tzimisce.soma.redhat.com> wrote: > This thread has reminded me that I've been meaning to ask... I > currently use EXMH and fetchmail, in order to read mail locally on > my workstation and at home. In confronting a similar problem I came to the following decision: I handle all mail locally. Thus I handle work email locally to my desktop at work, and I handle home email on my desktop at home. But of course, I want to also keep up on my home email while I'm at work (much of it is indirectly work-related). Solution: I SSH from work to my IP Masq box at home, and from thence to my desktop at home (***). I then run exmh on my desktop at home, exporting X over the SSH link back to my desktop at work. Ditto for Xemacs. Now I have the best of both worlds. *** Yes, I could just forward a port from the IP Masq box to my *** desktop to make things a little simpler. ===