[NBLUG/talk] Remote mail access

[Lincoln Peters]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 22:37, Eric T. Landerville wrote:
> I had an idea about a domain and squirrel mail but I don't think that
> would be the easiest way to go, or do it without the domain using fetch
> mail and dyndns, still not the easiest.

Fair enough.  However, I already have eGroupware running on the computer.  I'm 
not using it right now, but it should do pretty much everything that 
squirrelmail would do (if my experience with SSU's squirrelmail server is any 
indication).  Of course, I'd still need to set up the actual mail server, 
IMAPS support (I don't think eGroupware supports UNIX mail spools), and 
DynDNS.

What I'd hope for is that, if I can install and configure all of the parts, 
then it would be easy to make them work together.  

> Have you thought of any of the usb flash drive portable email clients,
> the only one that I have seen mentioned anywhere is
> 'portablethunderbird'
> http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/.  I haven't look
> into using it myself, I run the above mentioned domain/squirrel mail,
> but this might be what you are looking for.  It is thunderbird that runs
> totally off of your flash drive, it never touches the computer, it will
> run on multiple OS's and I think, *think*, that it will sync with your
> home computer.  

Hmmm...interesting, but according to the website it does NOT support sync'ing 
at this time.  And since it's only available for Windows, I wouldn't expect 
it to sync with KMail very easily, if you get my drift...

Probably the closest I could come to this would be a Knoppix CD with my 
preferences and settings stored on a flash drive, but the logistical 
implications of that idea scare me (e.g. do I run Knoppix on my primary 
computer and thus radically change the way I use it, or do I find some way to 
sync KMail between the two systems that might very easily prove very 
unreliable?).

> I though I read that in a review but I could be wrong. 
> If you are going to be doing this for any amount of time you might want
> to think of a more permanent solution, like running a squirrel mail type
> web based application for your email.  Domains are cheap you know $7 a
> year or so, I spend more then that on a burrito from Mi Pueblo a week.

$7 a year?  Maybe if this works, I'll consider a permanent domain.


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