[Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
What do you all do to access your email while traveling? I just got an Android phone. I would like to be able to get at my email on my home server, stored in MH message files. I've used nmh and exmh for years. Access from remote locations requires SSH and X11, which means that I usually need

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-10-23, at 12:56 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: I'd really prefer full operability between my phone and my home email. But, I don't know how to do that. I haven't looked for an nmh-droid app. If there is such a thing, I would bet that someone on this list wrote it. What do you

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Jerrad Pierce
It's definitely practical on a tablet, Hacker's Keyboard + ConnectBot is very usable. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: What do you people do in such circumstances? I simply do ssh from my phone. I have a Nokia N900 which has a hardware keyboard and even comes with an xterm application. With Android, you should be able to get a terminal and ssh client. You might also want to put an alias in

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 23 October 2012 at 22:23, Oliver Kiddle okid...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Kevin wrote: What do you people do in such circumstances? I simply do ssh from my phone. I have a Nokia N900 which has a hardware keyboard and even comes with an xterm application. With Android, you should be able to

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 23 October 2012 at 13:05, Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: On 2012-10-23, at 12:56 PM, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: I'd really prefer full operability between my phone and my home email. But, I don't know how to do that. What do you people do in such circumstances? About the

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Paul Fox
kevin wrote: One problem I have more and more often with running nmh in a terminal is that people and systems frequently send messages encoded as html or in the Microsoft variant of quoted-printable. Neither of these is very usable in my terminal windows. I think that's likely because I

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:56:10 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove said: What do you all do to access your email while traveling? I use fetchmail/procmail to suck my mail down from my e-mail provider to my laptop. And then I just take m laptop with me. :) pgpvrxNE5aXOU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Ken Hornstein
I haven't looked for an nmh-droid app. If there is such a thing, I would bet that someone on this list wrote it. What do you people do in such circumstances? I do something strange; I use AFS to access the same set of mail folders whereever I am (I call it a poor man's IMAP). Works reasonably

Re: [Nmh-workers] Email access while traveling?

2012-10-23 Thread Ken Hornstein
One problem I have more and more often with running nmh in a terminal is that people and systems frequently send messages encoded as html or in the Microsoft variant of quoted-printable. Neither of these is very usable in my terminal windows. I think that's likely because I haven't kept up on my