[100740] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Which E-Mailer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Mon Nov 23 07:26:31 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:23:21 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
Reply-To: tom@flwireless.net
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
CC: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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There are a couple of ways to skin this cat.
For the sake of these example we'll say your mail spool resides on machine
(work) and you're setting infront of machine (home)
example 1:
Telnet to work and su to root
telinit to runlevel 5
killall what-ever-email-program you use
exit the telnet session
On you home machine:
exit any X sessions
run: X -query work
This will export an x-session from your work machine to your display
on your home machine, but this can be bandwidth intensive (I also have a T-1
between home and work and this can be pretty slow during peak usage times).
example 2:
On home machine start an X session.
In and xterm type: xhost +work
this will allow any program ran by you at work to be displayed on your
home machine.
telnet work.
kill any mail programs running on the work machine just to make sure that
there are no locked files.
if you're running netscape for mail you may need to delete ~/.netscape/lock.
issue the command in the telnet session for your mail program.
I use example 2 alot as I have 3 servers located at different locations. This
allows me to track system load on each server (wmload) and watch http, ftp, &
mail sessions (wminet).
Hope this helps!!!
Ramon Gandia wrote:
> 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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