Re: NFS export of evolution

From: Robert Marella (hoe-waa_at_hawaii.rr.com)
Date: 01/12/05

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    To: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:24:35 -1000

    On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:38 +0000, Daniel Bye wrote:
    > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:43:05PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
    > >
    > > I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3
    > > Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be
    > > shared at all of the computers.
    > >
    > > I would like to have the ability to retrieve mail from any of the
    > > computers I happen to be logged into. I have tried various permutations
    > > of exporting /home, /home/reg-user, and /home/reg-user/.evolution and I
    > > always get the same error when trying to read mail.
    >
    > If your main concern is being able to read/send email from any host on
    > the network, why not run an IMAP server?
    >
    > I use use courier-imap from the ports on a machine that, among many
    > other things, also exports nfs file systems. It's easy to get working,
    > and works really well for a small setup. If you don't run your own smtp
    > server, you can retrieve mail from your ISP's pop or imap servers using
    > fetchmail, passing messages to procmail, which can deliver them in a
    > format that courier-imapd can understand.
    >
    > Just a thought.
    >
    > HTH
    >
    > Dan
    >
    Thanks Dan

    This will be the next project I will be doing.

    Robert 

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Robert Marella <hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com>
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