On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:38:18PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [12-08-14 10:21]: > > > 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. > 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. You could also look at tools like offlineimap or imapsync https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OfflineIMAP
