Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:56:30 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP pooping out; any BSD friendly ISP out there???? Message-ID: <20010325145630.H43051@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <200103240132.SAA05871@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:32:45AM %2B0000 References: <200103240132.SAA05871@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Mar 24, 2001 at 01:32:45:
> I need a shell account; minimally, it needs to be able to run
> "elm", so I can get at my email from work or from home, without
> it having to be POP'ed off, and become inaccessible, unless I
> bring a work machine home or a home machine to work. In other
> words, I need to be able to get to a single shell, regardless of
> whether I am dialing up from home or the road, or telnet'ing in
> from work or a borrowed machine.
>
> I would like it if I could run traceroute, nslookup, and whois,
> as well, so that I can do directional diagnostics from another
> point on the net, when I'm having local connectivity trouble
> somewhere with a leased line link. It would be annoying, but I
> can live without that, if I can just get a shell account with
> elm access.
Rather than POP, have you considered IMAP? I believe it's had
security problems now and then, but it can't be worse than
telnet'ing... and it's better than nothing if you don't find a
suitable provider for proper shell access.
I'm not sure whether elm supports it; I know mutt has good support for
it. I think most ISP's would support it too. Your mail stays on the
server, while your mail client runs on your local machine and accesses
the remote mailbox. You can read, delete, do whatever you like to the
remote mail which you would normally do to your local mail. So you
can access the same mailbox from either home or office. However, your
mail aliases, and your mail client configuration files, usually sit on
the local machine; so you'll need to sync those whenever you make
changes.
-Rahul.
--
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