On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:07:10AM +0000, John Long wrote: > > > I don't see how IMAP helps. What exactly is the difference in terms of how > > > you read mail and where the apps run as opposed to POP? The only thing > > > IMAP > > > does it make you rely on a remote mail server. I never use IMAP unless > > > they > > > don't serve POP. I know one mail provider that doesn't honor POP delete > > > requests so to avoid leaving 100,000 emails on their server that I can't > > > delete I use IMAP with them. Everywhere else, POP. I'd rather rely on my > > > own > > > email storage. > > > > > I wondered if, when using IMAP, mutt will store the temporary HTML for > > passing to Firefox on the local machine rather than the remote > > machine. One would expect it to somehow. > > If I understood you then yes, but the local machine as far as mutt is > concerned is the machine where mutt is running, not where you are > running. All mutt's working data is where mutt runs, as in all normal apps. > Exactly. I'm sitting using my laptop in France (for example) and I run mutt on the laptop using IMAP to access the E-Mails on my mail server machine at home. So, when I use 'v' to view an HTML E-Mail it stores the file in /tmp on the laptop and points my laptop browser at it to view it? This was really my original question! :-)
OK, it has to download the file so won't be instant but at least it works without any extra configuration or commands (except the extra complexity, if any, of using IMAP). > > No, as I said I just tried it and it doesn't work because Firefox is > > too clever and uses the local Firefox rather than the remote one so the > > file is in the wrong place. > > Firefox is POS technology, but depending on the version you can start it not > to use your local/running instance. try firefox --no-remote and look around > on the web if that doesn't do it. I have run into this several times with > network firefox etc and I have it working. > Yes, I've done it in the past when I was at work and really needed to view something that was only accessible from the browser on my home machine. Even across a fairly quick UK only internet connection it was horrendously slow. -- Chris Green
