From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 6 22:05:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA26286 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:05:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA26281 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05687; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710070505.WAA05687@austin.polstra.com> To: Dean Gaudet cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 03:42:34 PDT." Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 22:05:41 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here I am replying to this thread from my laptop, using (sigh) raw mh commands and slogin. :-( > I think part of what John wants is both online and offline > capabilities. Like what POP crap gives you if you always carry your > laptop around, but without the need for always carrying your laptop > around. Yes, that's part of what I want. More generally, I want to be able to _fully_ access my mail from any of several machines -- meaning, read messages, delete messages, move them between folders, reply to them, etc. That's the IMAP promise, but I think Mike is right that it's not a reality yet at least under FreeBSD. >From here it sounds like you and Mike aren't really in such violent disagreement. You are describing the ideal solution (which is what I really want), and Mike is describing the best solution he's found that's available today. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth