On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 03:06:40PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone here can advise on whether an idea of mine would be an impossible project. I have two computers (a desktop and a laptop) that I want to have the same e-mail and if possible address book. It seems to me that somehow this could be done by installing Linux on an old Pentium 100 of mine, hooking the P100 to my @Home connection and having it download mail every 5-10 minutes (how would I do that?). Then, I could download my mail off the P100 (but tell the e-mail client to leave it on there so the next PC could download it too) by setting up a POP3 server on it. Would this be difficult?
Yes, it is easy. I would suggest that you use an IMAP server on your desktop. This way you can have your email client on the laptop download the mail and then you can sync and your email on desktop and laptop will be upto date. I believe Suse alreadys comes with an IMAP server. As for downloading mail , use fetchmail via cron. -- Hiren -- -------------------------------------------------------- Do what you love and love what you're doing, and you'll never work another day in your life.