I have a small home LAN. I get my email by uucp through my college. At present I collect this mail on my laptop; but I would prefer to collect it on my desktop, and then read it on my laptop (through WiFi). My question is: I am running KMail on my laptop. Currently I look for mail in /var/spool/mail . Is there any way I could look for mail on my desktop, ie on a remote machine, without running an IMAP server or something like that on the desktop? I had hoped I could say (in KMail=>Settings=>Network=>Receiving) that I was receiving mail locally, but then give a remote address on my LAN, but that doesn't appear to be possible. Is there some general programming technique (like named pipes) which would allow a remote address to appear to be local? Any suggestions gratefully received. If I do have to run a mail server on my desktop, what is the best one, eg IMAP or POP3? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
