Jerrad Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: JP> It's definitely practical on a tablet, Hacker's Keyboard + JP> ConnectBot is very usable.
TerminalEmualtor + debian chroot is even better. BEST: you can install emacs + NMH on the tablet. I have replaced my 8-year old Thinkpad with an ASUS TF300 (rooted with CM10 within hours of receipt). I'm on a train typing this email on it. (Yes, train has wifi, but even if it was reliable, the latency sucks for interactive stuff due to excessive FEC on the backhaul radio channel) I have a desktop computer at home, and at work. They are debian machines with basically an identical install as I used to have on my laptop (which used to travel back and forth with me in my saddlebag) This is what I do. For regular use, I ssh into my home system from the office and run gnuclient -nw in a window. That's my email window. I use gnome-terminal which lets me click on links and have them open up locally. okay, I lose some of the beauty of a full Xemacs21. I keep thinking that sshfs with appropriate caching ought to give me something lose to what AFS and NFSv4 had always promised (but I never saw), and let me run nmh locally, but so far it's not the case. Then I could also run exmh, which I remember fondly, but gave up, once I realized that I spent 75% of email time in emacs anyway. I fetch my gmail, sandelman.ca, credil.org and accounts from my CREDIL sponsor employers locally with fetchmail+rcvmail recipe. I don't run this from cron or anything... that's based up the theory that email shouldn't interrupt you, so I invoke it to poll when I have idle cycles. For irregular out-and-about I have both my tablet and my Android G2 setup to poll gmail. Only things that go to gmail is generally nagios stuff. I use the Google GMAIL app for that, and tell it to leave email on server. I also use the stock Email (K9 on tablet) to talk POP3 with leave email on server option against my inbox(es). This lets me see important email over 3G if I want to. I have told those clients not to poll or interrupt me. I built a new mail server a few months ago, and I installed cyrus IMAP before I realized that it didn't do MH folders. I will likely install IW-IMAP on my desktop system for remote access to folders. -- Michael Richardson -on the road- _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
