mc Digest, Vol 81, Issue 5

Yury V. Zaytsev yury at shurup.com
Tue Jan 25 13:14:37 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 00:13 +0200, chris glur wrote:

> Yes that would be good, but life is complex.
> Because of spam-fear, we have associated this mail-list with gmail,
> which handles spam well.

Why would not you change your subscription mode to individual messages
and use Gmail filters instead of using batched (digest) mode?

> BTW, I'm assuming that this crappy web-based mail is putting line breaks OK.

Not really.

> And gmail's default mode is web-based.
> Experimenting to use pop or imap costs effort and each dialup costs me
> connection fees. ------------------

You can experiment with a local pop3 server such as dovecot and then
replace the hostname when you are done.

> ]The FTP File System (ftpfs) allows you to manipulate files on remote machines.
> So does it use tcp-ip? And then it would have to access the
> 'internet stack'? And any 2 PCs which could ppp, even via plip could swap files?

Yes. But you need to have an FTP server installed and configured in
order to use it.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev




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