On Tuesday 11 December 2001 1:25 am, David Aikema wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2001 09:57 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: > > My daughter wants to be able to read her mail from anywhere, not just at > > home. > > Currently, her mail comes via @HOME, whence it is fetched to my gateway > > box, which she accesses with linux (remote X query). Works fine, but she > > wants to read email from anywhere. > > My gateway faces the internet and can serve as a mail server for her. She > > uses netscape to read mail. > > These are my questions: > > 1. Can someone point to a good discussion of roaming profiles. I think I > > would need that to allow her to use netscape from any computer to read > > her mail. > > 2. How can I be sure that netscape will not slurp all her email out of > > her mail box on the linux server? Netscape 4.7x, which she uses, doesn't, > > but netscape 6.1, which I use, does. After I read my mail once in 6.1, > > all the mail has been downloaded to the local machine. I have checked the > > leave on server box in the preferences, but, that doesn't seem to do any > > good. > > How about using IMAP instead of POP3?
Or even something simpler for everyone like web-served email. I use neomail when I am traveling. neomail.sourceforge.net +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 12/11/01 08:39 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Law of Observation: "Nothing looks as good close up as it does from far away." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
