On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:20:37PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > mulix wrote: > > > mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut > > it above several hundred messages), evolution, kmail, mozilla, any other > > x based mailer. i read my mail over ssh frequently, and an x mua is not > > feasible. > > Have you looked into IMAP? IMAP is a protocol that keeps mail on the server. > Your IMAP client interogates the server asking it if there is new mail, > sends that mail t the client to be read, and stores any replies, etc > on the server.
since i run my own mail server, why would i want to use IMAP? i find it much easier to ssh into my box from wherever i'm at (using the wonderful putty ssh java applet if no trusted ssh client is installed on the local computer) and read mail as normal user. > Sounds like POP? Well IMAP is the son of POP, the biggest difference to > the user is that mail is stored in one central place. Sounds like it's > exactly what you need. imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? as for my problem with mutt, it's solved. there's a small configuration variable called 'timeout', with controls how long mutt will wait for a user to be inactive before it will check new mail. setting this variable to something sane, like 10 seconds, instead of the default 600, solved the problem. mulix, a mail junky. -- mulix http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
