[BC] Email Client Hosts, a Survey

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 06:02 pm, Alan Kline wrote:

> But you're absolutely right, Harold--Pine is the fastest MUA I've ever
> used.  No fancy-schmantzy UI, just a nice clean mail reader.

 Two things :

 I've been known to simply use the standard unix MAIL program
 in a pinch. Any text console is just fine, much like PINE.
 PINE takes a bit of familiarity to use, as does MAIL, and PINE
 is more functional.
 But, I sill use VI for quite a few things......

 It's not really necessary to gain ppp access, Harold.
 ssh can do port forwarding over the encrypted link, and
 allow full use of whatever mail program you choose on
 the remote machine. ( or any other program that exists
 on the remote host, for that matter, via X forwarding )

 X forwarding over ssh is slow, even when compressed, so
 I'm much more inclined to simply forward all of the ports
 I need over the channel, and use my favorite app on the
 notebook locally, while using the facilities of the remote host
 for delivery and such.

 Kmail on the notebook here, but ALL of the mail exists on my
 desktop workstation back in Ohio.
 That's also why my mail always appears to come from Ohio
 regardless of where I actually am at the moment. 
 Additionally, if the notebook fails, or is stolen, whatever, all
 of my mail remains on the RAID array back home, and not
 on the local notebook hard drive.
 No syncronization is ever necessary.

 Of course, those few brain-dead M$ based ISP's that block ssh
 are a problem......

-- 
Cowboy