[Cialug] Email

[Barry Von Ahsen]

I've never tried it, but it's from a while back (20040829, at least)

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/29/0237213&tid=198&tid=217&tid=106

-barry


Jerry Weida wrote:
> actually , I wouldn't be too surprised if this wasn't an April Fool's joke. 
> Something already exists for Windows. Silly little hack that creates an 
> email to yourself with an attachment that the software will show as a 
> filesystem.
> 
> On Apr 1, 2005 3:39 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry@vonahsen.com> wrote: 
> 
>>Lee wrote:
>>
>>>So Google is bumping up the available email storage to 2GB and will 
>>
>>continue
>>
>>>to increase it. Does anyone here use that much space for "email" or have 
>>
>>you
>>
>>>seen a users mail box that demands that much space?
>>>
>>
>>well, there's always gmailfs:
>>
>>"GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
>>account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses
>>the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the
>>filesystem, and libgmail to [communicate with Gmail]."
>>
>>http://circle.ch/wiki/?page=GmailFS
>>
>>-barry
>>
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