Kurt Hausler wrote: > > > Wifey has had to go away overseas (over Xmas too, sniff), and says she > > can't access her POP3 account on my server from cybercafes. > > 2 Other solutions: > A combination of ssh or telnet, fetchmail, and mutt can be a flexible way of > accessing email.
But is not available at the Cybercafe. They won't let you install Putty on their cruddy windows boxes. > A .forward file redirecting her email to a free webmail service, like yahoo > or gmx, (may require fetchmail as well depending on the current setup). This is what I'm doing, except it's the company account. Unfortunately as she has some mailing lists which send to both the company account and her home account, I have to do the process manually. > Seems simpler than setting up a whole webmail system just for temporary use. Well, I wondered how hard it was. If there was an RPM which just did it, I'd give it a go. Otherwise I'll just set up a cron to dump her /var/spool/mail file to the company account once a day. Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \
