[ILUG] A (?) naive solution to accessing work email from home

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:18:21PM +0000, kevin lyda mentioned:
> i use maildir folders to store my incoming mail.  no mail goes
> to /var/spool/mail/kevin - it all goes to various maildir folders:
> ~/Mail/inbox/, ~/Mail/ilug/ and so on.  around a dozen folders get mail.
> i file mail further from there - friends who send mail a lot have a
> folder, projects at work have folders and then the ulbiquitous humor
> folder.  all those are mbox style folders.
> 
> this setup works very well for me.  it's totally useless for imap.
> cyrus uses a db, courier uses maildir (in it's own style), uw imap
> supports mbox (and i haven't even looked to see if it will grock my
> mail setup).

 Er, I've used courier and mutt fine for four years now, no problems what
so ever. If I want to use mutt locally, I just point it at the (possibly
NFS mounted) Maildir directories, otherwise, I tell mutt to go look at
host/INBOX.personal and it's OK.

 I will say that you do need to prefix all folders with a . when invoking
them locally - but that's a small price to pay for portable mail reading.
Do it once, it'll take a few moments.

John