On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:11:53AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > 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.
This has nothing to do with IMAP. It has to do with how apps work. I'll clarify within my own comments: > > If I understood you then yes, but the local machine as far as mutt is > > concerned is the machine where mutt is running [your remote system], not > > where you are running [your ssh session from, your local system]. 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. Are you saying you can host a mail server but you can't understand the difference between running Mutt on a local or remote system? That's difficult to fathom. > 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? Check and see? > This was really my original question! :-) If so then you had no question at all. It's obvious Mutt will save the file on the system where mutt is running. It cannot work any other way and this has absolutely nothing to do with IMAP or POP. I believe everyone understood from the beginning of this thread you were ssh-ing to a remote box and running Mutt on the remote machine. All the answers until now have been based on that. > 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). I must have missed a few posts. This seems out of context. > > > 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. If you think that's slow then how do you think an SSH filesystem over the same connection will work? Sounds like a terribly bad idea. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
