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Re: [LUG] Introduction



On Sunday 04 January 2004 11:39, Anton Channing wrote:

set our home network up ...
... we would all be able to see our email
regardless of what pc we are on, instead of there being
one machine that has it on.

As a quick fix for that, give each user an account on the mail machine, 
and then run VNC giving them a remote desktop which they can view from any 
machine, including the mail machine.
Very Unixy.

Currently use linux for:
Email: Currently use KMail as our email client.  Have
been thinking of trying out Mozilla's mail client, but
am not really sure that it will be better?

Mozilla is nice for handling email by IMAP4 - which would allow you to 
store email on one machine - the server for this purpose - and access, 
forward and otherwise manipulate it from any machine.
My copy of Kmail doesn't do IMAP.

Of course, setting up IMAP on teh server is proving non-trivial here.
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Dr Adrian Midgley          I use Free software because it is better
http://www.defoam.net/    They carefully didn't ask.         

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