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On Sunday 03 May 2009 06:06:54 James wrote: |
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> Alan, |
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> Thanks for the response. :) |
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> I've thought about doing something similar to this, but it's a last |
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> resort. I end up using mutt on various different workstations and it'd |
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> be nice to run everything "locally". Obviously a solution where I'm |
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> fetching mail on every machine where I'm using mutt doesn't scale very |
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> well. |
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I've got several hard-core network engineer users with the same problem. They |
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solved it in a neat way, by running mutt in a permanent screen session on a |
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server I provided for the purpose. Getmail is now not necessary as I deliver |
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their mail to that machine. Working on the LAN and from home over vpn it just |
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works, connecting from home without vpn is a simple matter of ssh port |
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forwarding. Their shell profiles on every workstation runs screen and |
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.screenrc is set up to automatically connect to that server. |
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It works for them and is just geeky enough to appeal :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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