Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 10:06:43 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@DE.FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Masafumi NAKANE/?$BCf:,2mJ8?(B" <max@wide.ad.jp> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hub:/var full, please cleanup you mailboxes! Message-ID: <19980530100643.40706@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <19980530134952A.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp>; from Masafumi NAKANE/?$BCf:,2mJ8?(B on Sat, May 30, 1998 at 01:49:52PM %2B0900 References: <16110.896484021@time.cdrom.com> <19980530134952A.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp>
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On 1998-05-30 13:49:52 +0900, Masafumi NAKANE/?$BCf:,2mJ8?(B wrote: > >> It would be nice if we could have a pop client on one of our > >> FreeBSD.ORG machines so that I can manage my mails a lot more > >> easily. What I do is to leave the mails on hub for backup > >> purpose and I used to remove them once every two weeks or so > >> when MH was available on the machine. > > > I'm not sure I understand. You mean a pop _server_ so that you > > can pop it to some local machine? We already provide this. :) > > No. What I wish and used to do is: > > 1. Login to hub periodically and inc my mails into ~/Mail/inbox. Use movemail(1) to move you mailbox from /var/mail to ~/Mail/inbox. Compress inbox and transfer inbox.gz to you local machine. Wolfram > 2. Use pick and rmm to discard messages that are more than two weeks > or so old. > > The reason why I don't use fetchmail or whatever from my local machine > to get these messages is that the connection can get very slow. > > Cheers, > Max > -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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