Morgan Jones on 9 Nov 2007 00:20:54 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail



Jeff,

If you're looking for terminal based mail over an unstable/slow connection I would suggest a combination of screen and mutt.

Basically: ssh into the machine, start a screen session and run mutt inside of it. If the session drops screen will keep your session open. You can just re-connect to the session when you log back in.

If I understand your question--it really depends on how the server stores your mail. Is Thunderbird reading your store directly (ie /var/spool/mail/username? If so, mutt will work well for you.

If Thunderbird is popping from that machine or another machine you'll have to read up on mutt: I know it does imap, I'm not sure if it down pop.

-morgan



jeff wrote:
I get mail on 5 different machines using POP.  I understand I should be
using IMAP but it's not an option.

I figured out how to ssh and pass video, opening Thunderbird remotely
from the main machine.  It's ungodly slow, plus it tends to quit more
often than work.  x11vnc does a decent job but also occasionally cuts
off.  Today it quit and when I checked, it told me there was a different
serial number in the stream.  It was certainly the same computer I was
using to access it, so I'm a bit confused.

That aside, would I be better off running either a server proper on the
main machine, or something like pine, with no graphics, that I can ssh
into and read, hoping it won't drop the connection?

Will pine read the Thunderbird format?  I'd prefer to keep this as light
and uncomplicated as possible (mra,mua,MRE,postfix,prefix, and suffix).


Thankee.


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