for lo these many years i've always read my mail on my home server -- the mail gets delivered to that server, and i "inc" it into my home directoy directly. when i'm on the road, i use ssh to access a login shell on that machine, side-stepping the remote mail issue.
now, i'm about to find myself in a job situation where it would be very convenient to be able to read mail on my laptop when disconnected, primarily during commute time. i could envision installing all my mh scripts on the laptop, inc'ing the mail to the laptop before i leave home. then i could read while disconnected, and i'm sure i can figure out how to reply to mail and have it queued for later delivery. but then i have the synchronization problem -- i'd like, at the end of the day, to be able to merge what i've inc'ed/read/deleted/saved on the laptop back into my home mh mail tree. has anyone come up with tools to deal with this? i have some half-formed ideas surrounding simply refiling all the mail from the laptop back to the home server at the end of the day, but i'm not sure how well that will fly -- i'd lose sequences, for instance. am i missing something obvious? as another approach, i know chris garrigues posted a script (mhaildirsync) which will make one's mh tree available as a maildir tree, so that most imap servers can serve it up -- then the laptop could read from there, but i'm not sure whether that will help in this case. any brain-storming welcome. even comments to the effect of "give up, it's the new millenium, use thunderbird" will be considered. :-) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 64.2 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
