On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:56, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Brian Richardson wrote: > > >> 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? You can try what I have setup. I have a desktop system that contains my mailbox accounts. From my laptop I use ssh to connect to the desktop and run evolution. The display is sent to the laptop. I expect kmail can be used the same way. Doing this lets me access my email from any system. I even use this while traveling. ssh provides the added benefit of encrypting everything. So if I use wifi to my laptop no problem, if I get to it over the Internet no problem. Enable compression in ssh, that helps. Otherwise just make sure you have a broadband type connection. I don't think this option would work well over dial up. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?
