> For me being able to use tools like that is one of the main reasons I
> like mailing lists. If I'm at my apartment or studio I have to  
> perch my
> laptop on the window-sill to get wifi. As much as I kinda like sitting
> on window sills on the 8th floor, lets face it, it's damn  
> convenient to
> run maildirsync, grab my mail and go somewhere else to read it! The
> tools to manage mail are just so much better and have a much longer
> history. I'm subscribed to a dozen different mailing lists right now,
> piclist, sdcc-users, gnupg-devel, emc, risks-digest, rfc-notifier,
> debian-announce, tlug-announce etc. There is one forum I semi- 
> regularly
> read, rockclimbing.com, and that's mostly because of the pretty
> pictures. Well, I read slashdot.org too, but that's different...

Agreed 100% with this -- when I used to travel heavily, I could  
easily keep up with mail lists.  Web-based systems require that you  
be online to use them, and back when I started traveling, (I've since  
quit doing that) seeing a laptop on during a flight was a rarity.  I  
could sync all the mail and read and catch up on things that  
interested me whenever I had "down time" on a flight.

> Speaking of email management, take a look at mairix. It's a pretty
> decent program to search your Maildir and mbox mail archives. I've
> stopped worrying so much about carefully sorting my mail into folders
> now that I can rely on efficiently searching for it. I've got about
> 15,000 emails indexed by it, and searches return pretty much  
> instantly.

Interesting - I'll have to look for this.  I spend at least a couple  
of days a year cleaning the Inbox of cruft that didn't end up getting  
filed into the appropriate folder on the IMAP server, or deleted.

Now if I could just search from the cell phone... THAT would be an  
impressive little remote application... (I know I have an e-mail  
about a particular topic at home on the server and I want the info to  
share with someone real-time... but that means firing up the laptop  
and using bluetooth serial to search for it.

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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