On Monday 22 Nov 2004 13:00, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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 I@m making an assumption here ... That you do NOT download mail onto the laptop in any other way. If thats the case, why not ... write a short script that will scp the contents of /var/spool/mail from the desktop to the laptop, changing owner/group guids if neccesary, whenever you click on your Email program icon, then actually RUN the email program ... i.e. <start> #scp -r desktop://var/spool/mail /var/spool mail #kmail& <end> then simply read the mail from the maildir. -- Tony Dietrich
