Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

[plussier at mindspring.com]

In a message dated: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:46:41 EST
John Abreau said:

>Speaking of MH-based systems, has anyone heard of an MH-compatible
>back end that can talk to an IMAP server?

Sorry, doesn't exist.  This dead horse is occasionally dragged out of 
storage on exmh-users and summarilly beaten for good measure.  From 
the looks of the horse, it's not going to be any time soon that this 
type of thing is going to be developed :(

>When I'm on the road with my laptop, it uses too much bandwidth to ssh
>through my cable modem and then run exmh remotely,

Well, one option is run exmh in a VNC session which can then be 
connected to.  One of the exmh-users members mentioned he does this.
I believe there's a way to run VNC over ssh.

Another option is to use something like lbx-proxy, but I doubt 
that'll accomplish much if the ssh compression isn't doing anything 
for you.

>and the command-line nmh interface is a real pain in comparison to exmh.

Well, yeah, I supppose.  I've gotten pretty used to it, and pretty 
adept at it so it doesn't bother me all that much anymore.

You could always use mutt for when you're on the road, it understands 
mh-style folders to a point.  I've used it before and it seemed to 
work fine.  Of course, the big problem with mutt is that "out of the box"
I found it to be a real pain.  IMO, mutt is only worth using if 
you're willing to heavily customize it.  For something I so seldom 
use, it wasn't worth the effort.

>I figure it would be tolerable if I ran an imapd on my workstation and
>configured exmh to access my mailbox there via localhost. Then I could
>set up a simple ssh tunnel to connect from a laptop. But I don't see
>any imapd option for nmh.

Cuz there ain't one :(

In *theory* (here we go again, this magical theory place.  I really 
gotta move there :) the 'imp' web-ssl e-mail thingy is supposed to 
understand mh-style folders, but I never saw it work.  It could have 
been a config issue, but I never looked into trying to get it to 
work, since I never needed to read my work e-mail from the internet.

HTH,
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Seeya,
Paul
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