Re: Pine under ssh (was Re: Modernisations with Alpine)

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:49:55 -0400, Beartooth NQC wrote:

The chief benefit of webmail of any sort, afaict, is the ability it gives
you to get to your mail from anywhere there's a computer online;

Ya, but... Does anyone besides me lay in bed at night and wonder if
there wasn't a keylogger, or worse, infesting that "anywhere" PC?

but
remote pine confers that, and not at the price of putting up with a GUI --
at all, at all.

I now carry a USB CF "Thumb" drive with putty and psftp on it. If I
ever am asked what I'm doing at the PC, I tell's'em I'm uploading my
vacation pictures to send to my friends. These smaller capacity Thumb
drives are now being sold at close-out prices, and/or used as
loss-leaders at the Big Box office supply stores. 256MB -- SHEESH!
When all you need is a 360kB floppy.... :-)

In fact, the only reason I run Pine on my own machine at all any more is
that I do have an email account with any local ISP that I have to have to
get to the remote one, and Pan (which I prefer even to Pine for Usenet)
requires me to use that address; so I monitor it for the occasional
legitimate message.

Me, too. My 'connection' ISP is Comcast. My Real ISP (a FreeBSD shell
account) is a half a continent away. As well, I seem to still be able
to collect email out of several old, defunct accounts That Will Not Die
(that I use to tune my spam filters...) I have one word for you:
fetchmail. Dead simple to use, and I pull in all my email at my Real
ISP -- sort and organize it into targeted folders (I have another word
for you: procmail.) -- and my Real ISP seems to follow a much better
backup and recovery regimen than I do here at The Clutter Chalet. :-)

HTH
Jonesy
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