> I've been using mail for the past month (or two), by running > 'fetchmail ; mutt'. This is a *little* bit annoying, because I'd > rather be able to get my mail and read it with one command. Is > their a way to download mail, while in mutt?
well, if you have a shell account and procmail capabilities at the mailhost *and* you get net access at least once every 4 days, then my solution is still the best (i think): i run postfix locally on my laptop, accepting connections from the outside. furthermore, i have a dynamic ip host name mapping (since i administer the dns and bind 9 allows secure remote updates), and so on the mailhost, i instruct procmail (or .forward) to simply forward all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] straight to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so when i am online with the laptop (fishbowl), i get mail immediately (like it should be). however, if offline, mail will sit and wait for me in the server queue for at most five days (then it'll bounce). not a problem for me since 4 days of disconnection would be death anyway. on top of that, i have an entry in /etc/crontab, which sends and ETRN to the mailhost every hour or so. so when i go back online with the laptop, it takes at most an hour for all my mail to get delivered, and i could speed that up anytime: %> nc mail.madduck.net 25 220 diamond.madduck.net ESMTP HELO fishbowl.madduck.net 250-diamond.madduck.net 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-ETRN 250 8BITMIME ETRN fishbowl.madduck.net 250 Queuing started QUIT 221 Bye which sends all outstanding mail to fishbowl. fetchmail can handle ETRN btw. and for dynamic hosts, there is ODMR, although i don't know a good MTA which can speak ODMR. btw: if i ever need to go offline for longer than 4 days, i configure my mailhost to not forward. then it just sends them to a POP3 account, which can buffer endlessly. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "in contrast to the what-you-see-is-what-you-get philosophy, unix is the you-asked-for-it,-you-got-it operating system." --scott lee