On Thu, September 13, 2007 10:08 am, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Lan Barnes wrote: > >> <sigh> Gues I'm on my own. Best to Ralph. > > I've installed MH on RHEL, but I've never actually used it. > > Gregory >
I'm unhappy with how I handle mail. I was happy when I used fetchmail to bring it local and used mutt/vi, but the server that I used had a crisis and I've been living with a browser interface ever since that has all the disadvantages of browser interfaces I dislike so much. My mail server supports imap I'm told, and I see the advantage of keeping mail all in one place so I can look at it from anywhere. Actually, I could do that before using ssh/putty to get to the home server that I kept it on. I consider mail to be an important service but mail archives to be semi-disposable. I rarely refer back to them and often can't find stuff I saved because of topic drift or lousy subject lines. So if I lose a year's mail, I shrug and start collecting another year's. Anyway, MH looks interesting because of the opportunities to integrate it into just about anything through scripting. I find the separate file for each message problematic because I know (or think I know) that inodes are finite, at least in ext2/3. Can a Linux box have one mount point with an unlimited fs (reiserfs?)? I dunno. But if MH supports imap, I suspect that concern goes away. Or I could just go back to my old way. Just musing. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
