Re: email question (was The HTML Experiment)

[Sam Held <held@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>]

Jmaes,
	There is a solution to your problem that avoids downloading mail
onto your current machine. My advisor has implemented it and I am soon
(later this summer) moving to it.  It involves setting up an IMAP server
instead if a POP server.  I will my PC at the university to serve as host
- that is all my e-mail will be forwarded there and I can view it via
Netscape Mail from any computer in the world (that has Netscape) by
logging back into my computer at school.  I say Netscape Mail because it
can run on PC's, unix machines, and linux machines (I think).  I cannot
say for sure about Eudora Light but I am pretty sure there is no unix
version of it.  PLus, with the unix version, I can do it from a dummy
terminal by logging onto a unix machine.  So many options.  If need more
details, I get them for you.  


								Sam Held

sheld@utk.edu


On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, James Mclean wrote:

> As long as there's a discussion about email program choices...
>
> Both Netscape email and Eudora seem to have one serious problem - but
> perhaps there's a solution someone could tell me about.
>
> I read my mail from both my office and my home.  I am not always able to
> read all my mail at a single sitting, and I often want to leave messages
> sitting there so that I can reply later.  I imagine that this is very
> common.
>
> Since these mailers both download all the email to local disk before
> reading, I am left with two options:
> 1) Leave a copy of the emails on the central computer, and when I am done
> reading go into another mailer on the central computer and delete the ones
> I have just read... if I can remember which ones they were.
> 2) Don't leave a copy on the central computer, and have saved emails
> stashed randomly about in computers that cannot reach one another.
>
> Neither of these options is the least bit desirable.  Is there a solution?
>
> -- 
> --James McLean
> jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
> post doc
> UC San Diego, Chemistry