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> | Your setup won't work.  Thanks for the suggestions but it's not
Rat> | applicable at all.

Rat> I don't see the inapplicability, just the need for one more step: rsync
Rat> your News and Mail dirctories and .newsrc files between your notebook and
Rat> server as necessary and possible (ie, in your hotel room).  Then you can
Rat> use Gnus on your notebook when you can and on your server when necessary,
Rat> and you have a backup of your notebook mail files in case the notebook is
Rat> stolen or breaks.

I'm not following the workflow.  When I'm on the road, I'm not about
to pull 1100 messages a day down over IMAP to my laptop at 28.8, only
to push them back up at 28.8 using rsync just to keep the two archives
in sync, or on the possibility that my next email reading will be
laptop-less.

Maybe it's just the sketchiness of your descriptions.  As we all say,
"the devil is in the details", and you left those out, or didn't think
through the implications.  Well, I *have* been, and I still don't have
a clean complete solution yet.  That's why I started the thread.
You're retreading the first work that I started, but I'm already past
that, and have ruled some of those solutions out.

Do I need to restate the goals?  Here they are, just in case:

0) I get 1100 messages a day, which I sort by a Perl filter.
1) sometimes my laptop is connected, sometimes it isn't.
2) when it's connected, sometimes it's broadband, sometimes it's 28.8
   where I'm paying by the minute.
3) most of the time, I'll be emailing while my laptop is connected.
4) sometimes I wanna answer email on my laptop when it's disconnected.
5) sometimes I wanna answer email at an internet cafe (no laptop) by
   ssh'ing into my server
6) a bonus would be answering email in a web interface, in case I can't
   get Putty or MindTerm to work (rarer these days)

I'm doing everything but 4 and 6 by my current setup (no live mail on
laptop, just ssh to server).  I wanna know what my options are to add
#4, and maybe #6.  The "IMAP" stuff sounded like it was heading in the
right direction, mixed with offline reader mode.  But I need to know
what the downsides are, compared to what I've been using.

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