On 22-Nov-04, at 6:00 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: [ snip ]
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?
Short answer, yes. See below for more.
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Is there some general programming technique (like named pipes) which would allow a remote address to appear to be local?
There is a generally accepted protocol called NFS which allows remote filesystems to appear as part of the local filesystem. I have used NFS to mount /var/spool/mail to whatever machine I wanted to read mail on. I think there is a configuration setting in KMail to allow it to use mutt-style dotlocking which you will need to read mail from an NFS mount. See exports(5) on the system which has your live mail spool. You may also want to google for some general advice on setting up NFS on your network.
Brian -- Brian Richardson Software Developer Public Key available at http://www.cubik.ca/
