Re: /var and mail inboxes

Christian Kent (whophd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 01:35:49 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Ryan Heise wrote:

> > > I think it is about time that everyone was reminded once again
> > > that it is not acceptabe to have large mail boxes.
> >
> > How large is large?
> > The only reason I've kept my mail on ftoomsh (or wherever in progsoc) is
> > that I haven't yet worked out how to have a second mailbox via PPP and
> > netscape and download it all like I do with my SoCS mail...
>
> If you have a telnet client you can run pine (or something) on ftoomsh. With
> pine, you can save mail messages into different folders by pressing 's' when
> you have the message selected.

I use telnet and pine;
That is what I'm doing already. I've got a couple of months' mail packed
up this way.

Do you want us to desist from this practice?

>
> If you wanted to use a 'remote' mail reader, one way to access both your socs
> and progsoc mail boxes is to forward your progsoc mail to your socs account -
> which you can access.

<raised eyebrow>

Now you're talking ... this would be perfect. How do I arrange it?

>
>
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> "Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that."
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Ha ... very good, required a seconds' thought :-)