[100728] in RedHat Linux List
Which E-Mailer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 23 04:47:51 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:43:20 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
To: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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OK, here is the setup.
My main server gets my mail from the internet and makes it
available to me via POP, so I need to interface to that.
Fetchmail seems reasonable. I have no problems with fetchmail.
At home, I have one Linux Redhat Box, and another one at
work. the two are networked together via ethernet (couple
of miles via ADSL magic at T-1 speed, but is ethernet in
effect).
Now here is what I want to do.
I want to be able to get my mail at EITHER location, but I
want just one set of files, folders, mailboxes, whatever at
only ONE location (home). This is because I do not want to
have one set of mail messages in one location, and another
set in the other box. It is a pain, specially when running
a business, to have mail get udesychronicitated like that.
(word invented here).
Now, the programs must run in X windows. If you think that
using NFS is the answer, read on.
The programs must either NOT lock the files, or LOCK them
ONLY when actually writing and unlock immediately after.
Otherwise, what will happen is that I leave the office and
accidentally leave the mail program running there (the
computers are NEVER shut down). Then I get home and find I
am locked out of my mail.
This scenario happens when trying to use Netscape 4.5 under
Windows 95. Incidentally, for those interested in the Win 95
method, I have nothing but HORROR stories to tell you about
Win 95 Peer-to-Peer networking. In a word: sucks. It is
unstable with multiple reboots needed every week to get the
connections back up. Unlike Linux, when one of the Win 95
computers drops out, it does not come back on the peer to
peer when booted back. And if you have password protection
on the files, you have to go to the OTHER location (2 miles)
to type the stupid thing in.
If NFS is used, I can block the NFS port on the router to the
outside world to block crackers.
Any idea of which programs might be suitable for this scheme?
I have toyed with Netscape 3.04, (I love its interace), and
with exmh (too new to tell). Some others like TkRat I was not
able to get going.
ONe of the most aggravating things, in my opinion, is mail readers
that are paned horizontally so that the message has to be
scrolled after reading 10 lines or so. That is what I love about
Netscape 3.04; using "split vertical" I get a full height message
display. I *would* consider 3.04 as my mailer; it has NO locks
that I can tell, but I am never in two places at the same time.
Reader input requested.
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