[geeks] personal mail handling

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jan 21 21:33:47 CST 2002


On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:17:49PM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
> I know many of you use IMAP for email access.  I'm considering moving 
> to a more centralized system here and I'm wondering why IMAP works 
> for you and how you have your system setup otherwise.  Do you have 
> multiple workstations and (a) central server(s) for mail/files/etc or 
> do you have a central workstation that you keep everything on or 
> something in between?  I'm starting to feel vulnerable w/ keeping 
> everything on the powerbook.  I've been hacking OS X a lot and I've 
> killed it more than once.  How do you guys do your workstations?

Everything's on the colocated server; i use screen/mutt/procmail.  
I've also got a java-based SSH client on a virtual host on the machine,
so I can ssh in and read mail from anywhere.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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