I'm going to be venturing out soon and spending some time in areas where net access will be intermittent, at best, so I'm looking for suggestions on how best to set things up on my laptop and mail server. My preferred software for online mail is the combination of mutt and exim. I figure that simply modifying the cron job that runs exim's queue on the laptop to only do so when online should pretty well handle outgoing mail. For incoming mail, adding fetchmail to the mix is the obvious solution. However, my recollection of past experience with fetchmail is that it only allows the options of deleting all mail from the server as it is collected or never deleting mail from the server. But what I want is something similar to various GUI MUA's option to delete mail from the server once it has been deleted on the client. Another wrench in the works is that the server is already breaking my mail out into several mailboxes. Without duplicating all the filtering on the laptop as it is retrieved, this does not fit in well with the way that fetchmail operates. I suppose one (slightly oddball) option would be to use CVS to synchronize /var/spool/mail and ~/Mail, but a) I don't really want to maintain a version history of my mailboxes and b) yeah, it would work, and probably be fairly efficient, but somehow it just seems Wrong. Anyone have a better way of accomplishing what I want? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss