On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:20:30AM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
What do people here do to access e-mail when away from their normal PC?
Web mail services seem to be very popular these days.
Another solution that occurs to me is to use IMAP. I have already set up a local IMAP server so I can easily switch mail clients without having to worry about changes to their mailbox formats.
Another solution (the one I use) is to read mail using the command line via ssh. I have an ssh login on my hosting service (Gradwell) and I run mutt on their machine and read all my mail there. All that's required to access it is an ssh client.
On the subject of mail clients, has anyone had any success at persuading any of mail clients that they should not attempt to access any mail directly, with the exception of any cache, i.e. not attempt to read the default mail spool and keep the "Inbox", "Sent" and "Drafts" folders on an IMAP server?
Well mutt does this pretty well. I not only use it as my personal mail client (as described above, using ssh) but I also use it as my mail reader at work where it reads mail on an MS Exchange server which has IMAP enabled. It works well and leaves everything on the Exchange server.