MUA woes (was Re: [svlug] MUA-hahaha. )

[hvrietsc@yahoo.com]

another way to have all mail in one place but be able to access from any
computer (yes even a windoze box): install on the main machine vnc
(see www.http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

then use the vncviewer (even dos versions available that fit on a floppy!)
to look at you email. all that is required is that the machine you are using for reading can 
make a tcp/ip connection (yes even a 56K modem is fast enough for the vnc protocol)
and of course vnc is free & free (beer and speech).

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:32:22PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:46:24 -0700 
> Randy J Ray <rjray at 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.
> 
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