I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally).
At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run mutt. This works well in general but there are some disadvantages, in particular the 'v' command to access and view HTML, PDF and other graphical attachments doesn't work because, of course, there's no GUI access to the machine where I'm reading the mail. It's also a bit annoying simply saving attachments and then realising they're on the remote machine. So, I'm wondering if using IMAP would make my life easier. I would run Dovecot I expect. If I do this do things become more transparent to a remote mutt? E.g. if I want to view an HTML E-Mail in Firefox (default browser) instead of within mutt (using lynx) can I just do 'v' followed by selecting the HTML attachment as I would when running mutt locally on the machine where mail is hosted? -- Chris Green
