[TriLUG] Advice: ssh/rxvt/pine

[Andrew Perrin]

Errr.... because I haven't used fetchmail in years and didn't realize it
can check IMAP as well as POP.  I'll plan on that....

Thanks-
Andy (feeling dumb)

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On 22 Apr 2002, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 08:53, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > the right way to go).  I considered setting my campus account to forward
> > to a local account on my office machine, but that has significant
> > downsides (that is, I have to worry about making sure my machine is always
> > available - losing mail on that account would be worse than on others).
> 
> Why forward mail when you can fetchmail? I've found that fetchmail is
> much more useful for this sort of thing than a .forward file - if your
> work machine goes down, it's OK - you can still ssh in to the other
> account until it's back up. 
> 
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