Wow, yeah, that would work. Good job!
I wanted to avoid building the whole thing myself, you see.
In the Windows 98 build you actually do a File-Offline-something or
other that lets you read (and browse) in an offline mode. It uses the
IMAP cache and the browser cache to do this. Probably it's mainly just
the flick of a switch in the code, really, when you consider both caches
are already there. This menu option isn't present in the potato build,
nor any other UNIX build I've ever seen, for that matter.
I think folks used to assume anything running UNIX was full-time
networked. Just ain't so anymore.
Andre Berger wrote:
Cory Snavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is the *exact* same problem I have. One possible solution I've been
kicking around is to set up a low-end server at home with imapd and
Apache with mod_roaming (for the address books, etc.)
That's a lot of work. To confess, though, I thought it might be fun 8)
and good practice.
My biggest complaint, though, is that the potato Netscape doesn't seem
to have the same offline reading capability as the Windows 98 one.
Does anybody know about that (why that feature doesn't seem present)?
You just have to use it ;)
I have exim to send mail from and fetchmail to download mail to my
potato box. Add shell scripts to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that send and receive
mail automatically as soon as you go online.
Set (Netscape) Preferences | Incoming Mail Servers 's Server Type
to Movemail. I had to use External MoveMail
'/usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/powerpc-debian-linux/movemail' from
xemacs21-nomule's bin package because the Builtin MoveMail didn't
work. Set the User Name to the login name on your own box (your
$USER). BTW I have unchecked any other button there. As soon as the
scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ have finished, you can go offline. Use
Messenger's Get Msg btn to actually get the mail into Netscape.
Set the Outgoing (SMTP) Server to 'localhost', the User Name to
your login name on your own box again. If you want to send mail,
always use the Send btn (not Send later). This will add the
msg to the exim queue.
Andre
Christopher Hicks wrote:
Hi All,
Having just got my laptop back from repair (g) I am ready to
reinstall operating systems and recover everything from my backups etc
etc.
I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade from slink to potato.
One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before
is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition
accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh)
such that I can access it with a unified set of folders/address book etc
from whichever O/S I happen to be in the time. This also requires a mail
client which runs under both linux and Win98 (or at least a pair of
clients
with compatible file formats).
At first sight Netscape Messenger would seem to fit the bill, but
unfortunately it seems to use different filenames (for its mail folders)
under the two O/S's. If the set of filenames were static I could possibly
get around it with some symbolic link trickery on the linux side, but this
would limit me to creating new mail folders only in Windows, and then
manually fiddling to make that new folder work in linux. Yuck. (Also
Netscape has the one POP server limitation which is a pain since I use
two
POP accounts).
Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy.
Does
anyone have any other suggestions?
Christopher Hicks
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