[TriLUG] Advice: ssh/rxvt/pine

Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney alchemist at darkcanvas.com
Mon Apr 22 10:11:07 EDT 2002


On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 08:53, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> the right way to go).  I considered setting my campus account to forward
> to a local account on my office machine, but that has significant
> downsides (that is, I have to worry about making sure my machine is always
> available - losing mail on that account would be worse than on others).

Why forward mail when you can fetchmail? I've found that fetchmail is
much more useful for this sort of thing than a .forward file - if your
work machine goes down, it's OK - you can still ssh in to the other
account until it's back up. 

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