From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50121 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wuertele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: road warrior trying to simplify a mail setup Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:53:34 -0800 Organization: Berkeley Fluent Network Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86fzr2ek0j.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 1045259806 24076 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 21:56:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:56:46 +0000 (UTC) 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 18jnp6-0006GA-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:56:44 +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 18jnqD-0006n4-00; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:57:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:58:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10544 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:58:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jnng-00067C-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:55:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jnnf-00066Y-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:55:15 +0100 Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ALVn66oexhW3GFZVROK1ARoCxEQ= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50121 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50121 Randal> Help. I can't be the only one who wants to read and answer Randal> email both while online and offline. I bought myself a 30GB laptop drive and slapped it into an el-cheapo USB2.0 clamshell enclosure. My .gnus and all my maildirs are on that drive. No matter what computer I plug my USB drive into, when I run emacs it gets pointed at the .gnus file on the drive. Each computer that I read news on has a crontab script running once per minute. The script checks what interfaces are available and whether the USB drive is mounted. If the drive is moutned and one or more interface is available, the script downloads mail as appropriate for that interface by selecting the appropriate fetchmail config file and running fetchmail --nodetach -f $FETCHMAILHOME/.fetchmailrc-$this In fact, I have different fetchmailrc files not only for different interfaces, but for different mail addresses. Each fetchmailrc has lines like mda "/usr/local/bin/maildir ~/mail/maildirs/$some_maildir" for delivering the mail into the appropriate maildir, where GNUS finds it. I find this setup meets my needs perfectly. I don't need to carry a laptop around anymore, I just need to make sure that my destination has a computer with a USB2.0 port and emacs. In fact, I go a step further and mount the USB drive as a loop-aes encrypted partition. But thats a whole 'nother story. Does this meet your requirements? Dave