Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Richardson
BTW: I also have scripts "notemail" and "syncmail" Notemail copies Mail/inbox to my "laptop" (actually an android ASUS tablet w/debian chroot,emacs,mh, etc.). Along with it, I make an empty directory for every folder on my desktop, so that refiling is simple. syncmail c

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-11-23 Thread Bill Wohler
Kevin Cosgrove writes: > What do you all do to access your email while traveling? Hi Kevin. I have three options: 1. If I have my laptop with me, then the normal thing happens (fetchmail gets the mail from my IMAP server). 2. Otherwise, I use K9 on my phone to read the mail from my IMAP ser

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-29 Thread rader
> > i think an ssh + mh-v on a laptop is a decent replacement for Exmh. > > "mh-v" ??? "MH-V - an exmh-like interface for MH/nmh mail with GTK+ colors and Vim key bindings" [written in perl using perl-Curses] Yes, it's mysterious. Google "nmh mh-v" and fishing around in the archives might

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-29 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 24 October 2012 at 9:05, Dale Alspach wrote: > ConnectBot has a force size setting. ??? where? > I use 40x25 on my android phone. This > is tolerable for command line use. You may want to try a replacement > virtual keyboard such as Swiftkey 3 or Hacker's Keyboard. Yes. > I forward some e

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-29 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 24 October 2012 at 7:56, ra...@hep.wisc.edu wrote: > i think an ssh + mh-v on a laptop is a decent replacement for Exmh. "mh-v" ??? > someday i'll probably make ssh + mh-v work well on driod (won't > take much work) but so far i've avoided owning/wanting a smart > phone. It took me a long t

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-26 Thread Ed Santiago
>What do you all do to access your email while traveling? For the last 3 years (since I got an OG droid) I've had this procmail rule: # First: exclude lots of stuff, sent to low-pri folders # Now: Anything sent directly to me :0 * !^FROM_MAILER * ^TO(list-of-addresses-that-match-my

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-26 Thread Dale Alspach
ConnectBot has a force size setting. I use 40x25 on my android phone. This is tolerable for command line use. You may want to try a replacement virtual keyboard such as Swiftkey 3 or Hacker's Keyboard. I forward some email to gmail. I use procmail to handle the filtering. Dale Alspach __

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: ra...@hep.wisc.edu > Reply-to: Discussion list for EXMH users > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:56:20 -0500 > Message-id: <201210241256.q9ocukmo018...@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu> ra...@hep.wisc.edu wrote: > > i think an ssh + mh-v on a laptop is a decent repl

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Richardson
Ken Hornstein wrote: >> One problem I have more and more often with running nmh in a >> terminal is that people and systems frequently send messages >> encoded as html or in the Microsoft variant of quoted-printable. >> Neither of these is very usable in my terminal windows. I th

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Richardson
Jerrad Pierce wrote: JP> It's definitely practical on a tablet, Hacker's Keyboard + JP> ConnectBot is very usable. TerminalEmualtor + debian chroot is even better. BEST: you can install emacs + NMH on the tablet. I have replaced my 8-year old Thinkpad with an ASUS TF300 (rooted with CM

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-24 Thread Ken Hornstein
>> someday i'll probably make ssh + mh-v work well on driod (won't take much >> work) >... .? "driod" == "droid", as in "Android", the popular OS for phones and tablets. I realize that Google is little help for "mh-v"; Google says it's the Mid-

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-24 Thread rader
i think an ssh + mh-v on a laptop is a decent replacement for Exmh. someday i'll probably make ssh + mh-v work well on driod (won't take much work) but so far i've avoided owning/wanting a smart phone. (in fact the impending smart phone and/or tablet doom was partial motivation for writing mh-v.

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Ken Hornstein
>One problem I have more and more often with running nmh in a >terminal is that people and systems frequently send messages >encoded as html or in the Microsoft variant of quoted-printable. >Neither of these is very usable in my terminal windows. I think >that's likely because I haven't kept up on

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I haven't looked for an nmh-droid app. If there is such a thing, >I would bet that someone on this list wrote it. > >What do you people do in such circumstances? I do something strange; I use AFS to access the same set of mail folders whereever I am (I call it a "poor man's IMAP"). Works reason

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:56:10 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove said: > What do you all do to access your email while traveling? I use fetchmail/procmail to suck my mail down from my e-mail provider to my laptop. And then I just take m laptop with me. :) pgpvrxNE5aXOU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Paul Fox
kevin wrote: > One problem I have more and more often with running nmh in a > terminal is that people and systems frequently send messages > encoded as html or in the Microsoft variant of quoted-printable. > Neither of these is very usable in my terminal windows. I think > that's likely becau

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 23 October 2012 at 13:05, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > On 2012-10-23, at 12:56 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > I'd really prefer full operability between my phone and my home > > email. But, I don't know how to do that. > > > > What do you people do in such circumstances? > > About the best you

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 23 October 2012 at 22:23, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > Kevin wrote: > > What do you people do in such circumstances? > > I simply do ssh from my phone. I have a Nokia N900 which > has a hardware keyboard and even comes with an xterm > application. With Android, you should be able to get a terminal

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: > > What do you people do in such circumstances? I simply do ssh from my phone. I have a Nokia N900 which has a hardware keyboard and even comes with an xterm application. With Android, you should be able to get a terminal and ssh client. You might also want to put an alias in .ssh/con

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Jerrad Pierce
It's definitely practical on a tablet, Hacker's Keyboard + ConnectBot is very usable. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-10-23, at 12:56 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > I'd really prefer full operability between my phone and my home > email. But, I don't know how to do that. > > I haven't looked for an nmh-droid app. If there is such a thing, > I would bet that someone on this list wrote it. > > What do you

[Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
What do you all do to access your email while traveling? I just got an Android phone. I would like to be able to get at my email on my home server, stored in MH message files. I've used nmh and exmh for years. Access from remote locations requires SSH and X11, which means that I usually need a