On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:04:26PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > 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. > > > Yes, I guess that's one way of doing it, not too difficult to automate > using a script. I could simply mount my ~/.mutt and my ~/Mail > directories and run mutt on the laptop (which is what I'm always using > when away from home). Slow with mbox I fear though, I might have to > change to Maildir to make it usable. > > Doesn't anyone use IMAP? I must admit when I tried it (a few times > over the years, but not very recently) it never felt quite as easy and > transparent as using mutt on a local mail spool.
My setup consists on downloading all my email via getmail onto my local machine, with regular updates via cron, and posting via msmtpqueue. It harkens back to a time when internet access wasn't always a given for me, and I like how it works now, so... -- Eduardo Alvarez "Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum" -- Rincewind The Wizzard
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