-- Keith G. Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 03 October 2002, 11:08 AM -0500): > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > >-- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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!
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