Q4.0.8: Remote mail reading with VM.

My mailbox lives at the office on a big honkin server. My regular INBOX lives on my honkin desktop machine. I now can PPP to the office from home which is far from honking... I’d like to be able to read mail at home without storing it here and I’d like to use sxemacs and VM at home... Is there a recommended setup?

Joseph J. Nuspl Jr. writes:

There are several ways to do this.

1. Set your display to your home machine and run dxpc or one of the other X compressors.
2. NFS mount your desktop machine on your home machine and modify your pop command on your home machine to rsh to your desktop machine and actually do the pop get’s.
3. Run a POP server on your desktop machine as well and do a sort of two tiered POP get.

William Perry adds:

Or you could run a pop script periodically on your desktop machine, and just use ange-ftp or NFS to get to your mailbox. I used to do this all the time back at IU.