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[ILUG] A (?) naive solution to accessing work email from home

[ILUG] A (?) naive solution to accessing work email from home

kevin lyda kevin+dated+1039142623.d4f057 at ie.suberic.net
Sun Dec 1 02:44:02 GMT 2002


On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:57:44PM +0000, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 09:50:08PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > > all that said, i'm *not* going to go through imap when my disk is
> > > local (or nfs mounted on a 100mb/s network).  that's just silly.  
> > i access my mail via IMAP too, even though i also have /var/spool/mail 
> > automounted. IMAP is just a better way of accessing remote mail. 
> ....not to mention that accessing mboxen over nfs is bad, and will
> end in tears. And not the happy kind of tears either.

really?  gosh, i'd never heard that.  maybe i should use maildir format
for incoming mail.

oh wait, i do.

kevin

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