Leif,
Regarding your message dated: Thursday, April 13, 2000...
LG> I believe you are referencing the how-to on setting up TB as a
LG> *mailing list* server. This is quite a bit different than having a
LG> mail server.
Actually, what I had seen was the settings option available under...
Options/Network & Administration/ (main TB! Window)
where you can setup a machine as either...
1: Workstation with TCP/IP. *** what I currently use ***
2: TCP/IP or Dial out server. *** the option I saw ***
3: Non-TCP/IP Workstation.
(You also set this when installing TB! as I recall)
Although I doubted it I thought it might be cool if TB! could act as
it's own 'virtual mail server' (for want of a better expression)
whereby I could perhaps remotely login to TB! running on my office
machine at work in order to access the TB! accounts (which access my
chosen email accounts) I have there. I imagined this as a kind of
fudge instead of using IMAP to access my actual email accounts.
This whole affair was initiated when I was working from home recently
and I wanted to check a message I had received some weeks earlier.
Despite a fastidious use of filing to keep my messages sorted (~80
folders, ~80 filters although not a 1-to-1 correlation there actually)
I was annoyed to find that the message base file for the mail folder I
was after was some 10mb in size which over a 56K connection is too
painful to bear. I ended up having to login to a unix box at work,
(since my machine has no telnet server running) and ftp the message
base file from the PC to the unix box (quite quick with an intranet)
at which point I could then access the file using the command-line
viewers. (less/more, take your pick.) Strangely I did not consider
this ideal. Anyway...
Thanks for the comprehensive reply by the way. The advice was
appreciated because it gave me some ideas for the coming months. I
currently keep all my mail on the office machine (since it has the
better network connection) and I use the 'leave on server' option when
I check mail from remote locations such as home.
I'm thinking about all these issues now in anticipation of moving on
from my present position in the fall at which point I'll need to
'gather up my possessions.' The most likely route to completely
satisfy that right now would be a wholesale copy of my account folders
onto another machine (say at home...) in which case I hope we get
writable DVD here in the office before I go...
Hope that wasn't too much like rambling...
Cheers,
Mark
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