I tried this but it was just overkill when all I wanted to do was read mail.
KDE is currently working on a desktop sharing program based on VNC which would allow you to share your actual desktop, instead of startingup another instance of X for VNC clients. Spencer On Tuesday 08 October 2002 04:56 pm, Alexander Boulgakov wrote: > Try VNC -- just start up a VNC server, get some important progs going > there that you will use alot (IRC,Email) and you can access them from > anywhere. Really nice system. A good VNC for Linux is TightVNC -- which > is pretty much the original VNC code from AT&T labs plus some nice > improvements. The only thing I miss is being able to VNC display :0, > which would be a really nice ability. Anyone know how to do this, > perchance? > > Alex > > On Tuesday 08 October 2002 03:59 pm, Big Mike Forsberg wrote: > > Currently, I just keep my mail on one machine. Everything is > > forwarded to the main machine. Then I read it via ssh and mutt. I'm > > sure the same could work for a fancy prog like KMail. > > > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:18:38PM -0500, Spencer Ogden wrote: > > > I've been trying to come up with a good solution to this for a > > > while. Basically the situation is this. I have a desktop which acts > > > as my server. In the past that was the only place I read mail, so > > > use Kmail to POP my mail from school. > > > > > > Now I have a laptop and would like to be able to have easy access > > > from it and any other computer I happen to use. IMAP seems like the > > > way to go. He is the problem. Kmail is always running, that is how > > > new mail gets downloaded, but after accessing a folder through IMAP, > > > kmail's index file gets screwy because it is out of sync with the > > > folder contents, closing kmail and `touch`ing the folder fixes this > > > problems. > > > > > > So my question is this: What solutions you you guys use for this > > > situation? Should I be using fetchmail to do the POP and then read > > > everything through IMAP, even locally? Should I just have the school > > > forward all mail to my local MTA? What do you do? > > > > > > Spencer > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Siglinux mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Siglinux mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
