* Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [12-08-14 10:40]: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * 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. > > > Yes, that's the alternative (to IMAP) really. However a lot of my > remote locations are very remote and have slow connections, running a > browser remotely would be unusably slow and similarly NFS would be > messy and insecure.
I haven't explained myself, apparently. I *only* utilize nfs on my local systems, not outside my router. >From *outside* I utilize fish://<ip-addr>/local/directory/... Usually the html files are not that large and doing the transfer in the background, you can continue doing something else rather than sitting and waiting. Agreed, nfs is not something to be utilized outside your local network. SSH: and fish: is the way to go as I see it. :^) -- (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
