[ale] Personal e-mail setup for remote access

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Mon Feb 16 21:23:03 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:58:18PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I need to restructure my linux desktop e-mail setup so I can easily
> access/manage the e-mail from home as well as from the office.
> 
> Currently I just use evolution to do a pop3 retrieval from my company
> account.
> 
> I've tried ssh'ing in from and running evolution remotely, and it is
> overly slow.

You might consider a curses-based email client, like mutt or pine.  Then
you can ssh in and performance is still snappy.  You also won't have to
worry about installing a client anywhere, or exposing an IMAP
connection.
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