Re: How do you read mails when gnus is not available?

[dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland)]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Another approach is to set up an IMAP server and a web interface to
> go along with it.  Then you can either use Gnus as an IMAP client or
> use the web-based IMAP client.  This would make it easier to compose
> messages because that would be done locally.  Then, you'd `only' have
> to wait when you select a message for viewing or suchlike.

I recently set up such a system, and tried it out last week while
traveling.  It's not fun, and my writing suffers when I'm forced to
use such a, er, limited editor, but it worked, and everything was up
to date when I returned home.  I left a Gnus running so new mail was
split, but I suppose I really should move splitting from Gnus to
procmail (which I've used but find onerous to configure) or sieve
(which looks interesting but about which I know little).  Or cron a
job to run gnus periodically just to split new mail; has anyone tried
that?

In summary, I found that being able to walk into an internet cafe and
point an https connection at squirrelmail running on my desktop
machine was worth the effort to get it going.

Cheers,
Michael