Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail

[Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>]

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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