From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49912 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup Date: 07 Feb 2003 11:53:08 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <86r8aj27h7.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <86fzr2ek0j.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <864r7g6e3h.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86ptq44phn.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <86n0l82c2v.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044647552 16380 80.91.224.249 (7 Feb 2003 19:52:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 19:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18hEXb-0004DW-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:52:04 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18hEYv-0002Mn-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:53:25 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:54:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA22767 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:54:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 60488 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2003 19:53:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 60483 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2003 19:53:09 -0000 Original-Received: from red.stonehenge.com (postfix@65.208.40.162) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 7 Feb 2003 19:53:09 -0000 Original-Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B3FEE8256C; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:53:08 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49912 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49912 >>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat writes: Rat> If you are willing to move your mail operations to your notebook, then the Rat> only times you need to be connected to a network are when you want to Rat> download your mail, when you want to run your outgoing queue, and when you Rat> want to sync your notebook and your shell server(s). I think this is the Rat> simplest overall setup. It covers cases 1 through 4. Case 5 remains an Rat> option, as long as you keep your notebook and server in sync. That's the one I question. To read my email on the server when my laptop is not around, I'd have to rsync all my email back *up* to the server each time I brought it *down* and processed it (because processing it usually involves renaming it to a more permanent folder, and rsync doesn't handle renames). That means all email is going *twice* over 28.8 when I'm on the road. And I'd have to do it *every* time, on the off chance that I might need to use an Internet Cafe the following day. Or am I missing something? Or did you not think that all the way through? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!