On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > I divide my time between office and home, and would like to be able to > access my inbox, whether at home, or at work, I run exim4 and keep my > mailbox on my office machine. I have cable at both locations. > > How would I set things up so that when I run mutt, I access my work mail > box, whether at home or at work?
Exim's only concern is accepting mail and, ultimately, delivering it into a mailbox. How you access that mailbox to read its contents is nothing to do with Exim. For that, you need something like a POP3 or an IMAP server to which your chosen mail client will connect to access the mail; given your circumstances, an IMAP server would seem to fit the bill; run it on the system where Exim has delivered your mail, and connect to it in mutt from both home and office: the mail stays stored on the server, so you see the same view of it from either location. Some will recommend dovecot for an IMAP server. There are, of course, others (Courier, UW, ...). Of course, the IMAP server must be able to read the same format of mailbox that Exim writes, which only really boils down to a choice of two, and for even moderate usage on modern hardware, it probably doesn't make much difference whether you pick mbox and maildir, in terms of performance. There may be technical or philosophical reasons for choosing one or the other. You will also need to consider how outgoing mail from your mail client is sent, which is a completely separate process with various options - via your home connection's ISP, via your own Exim installation with appropriate controls, or via some other third-party service. There are issues to be aware of with all of these. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
