Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

Rat> * merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)  on Fri, 07 Feb 2003
Rat> | That means all email is going *twice* over 28.8 when I'm on the road.
Rat> | And I'd have to do it *every* time, on the off chance that I might need
Rat> | to use an Internet Cafe the following day.

Rat> | Or am I missing something?  Or did you not think that all the way
Rat> | through?

Rat> If your server has a mirror of your filters as well as a mirror of your
Rat> mail files, you could run a remote copy of your spool through them at the
Rat> same time your run a local copy of your spool through them on your
Rat> notebook.  rsync (or some such) would be used to sync the differences that
Rat> you make on one to the other.

No, it's the manual part of the process.  I get a message in my inbox.
I read it.  It relates to project1, so I "B m" it to nnml:project1.

No automation can do that.

In your scenario, If I did that on the laptop, I'd I have to rsync
back to the server, so that the message can be deleted from nnml:inbox
and inserted into nnml:project1.  Ugh.  Some of those have fat
attachments.  Double Ugh.  28.8 sucks, but for the road warrior, it's
still the norm.

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