On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:33:55PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John Ferlito wrote:
> > The only disadvantage here is that your email is now on your
> > home machine. So unless you're connected 24x7 then you can't access your
> > email from anywhere else anymore. Unless you keep a copy on the server
> > or something.
>
> Leaving my email on the server (like I am reading it now, via ssh)
> has great advantages. I only download it my home PC when I feel
> like it.
Seems like you have a shell account on your server. In that case, you
can set up a .forward file in your home directory to pipe the mail
through procmail. The mail then ends up in a bunch of directories in
your home directory, rather than in /var/spool/mail or whatever, but
most mailers will still be able to read it. Look at the procmail manpage
for how to do this.
This is the method I use to sort mail on a central machine that I later
read using IMAP/SSL.
Cheers,
Malcolm
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