* Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [12-08-14 10:21]: > 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?
I work somewhat similarily. I store all mail on my local box and maintain a tmux session which I access remotely via ssh -X. I can view html using the home machine's browser remotely but it is quite slow due to connection speed at most hotels. I prefer to view those very few particular html files by krusader/dolphin fish and transfer to local machine, then employe browser on my laptop. When using my desktop which is different than mail storage location, I dump the html via nfs to a file local to my desktop and view using my desktop's browser. hth, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
