On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > 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?
Hello, Chris, What I do is that at work, I mount my home mail folder using sshfs. That way, I can use my local copies of mutt, xpdf, etc. With large messages, it can get slow, sometimes, but it does save some time. -- Eduardo Alvarez "Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum" -- Rincewind The Wizzard
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