Comments on: How should I remotely access my email?

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

What I used to do was:
* pop off mail from different places to a Linux box
* use spamassassin or dspam for filtering
* run an IMAP/SSL server (dovecot works fine) on the Linux box

Then, I had many choices for reading email:
* (a) read mail locally on the Linux box using Mutt
* (b) read mail remotely by SSH’ing into the Linux box and using Mutt
* (c) read mail remotely using Squirrelmail (PHP email client that runs right on the Linux box)
* (d) read mail remotely using any secure IMAP client

None of the options impacted the others since I was using IMAP.

But I’ve recently switched to gmail because it works fine, it’s easier, and I don’t need to read mail offline.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Nuts…
Now I’m having to reevaluate whether or why I’d not just use gmail, too. I remember writing about this a long time ago and deciding I wanted to keep my mail, but since my disk just crashed and I may have lost all my email with it, maybe gmail really is a better solution? Or at least better than setting up the RAID array I’ve been researching?

Thanks a ton for the ideas though! My webhost already has spamassassin filtering and I’m using squirrelmail. I didn’t think of hooking up my own imap server after retrieving the mail. Looks like I can do that in cygwin but the question again is whether I’d really *want* to. Hmm…