Lan Barnes([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:21:24PM -0800: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:32:42PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Wade Curry spake thusly: > > > I didn't follow this. Where are you running mutt? If you're > > > > I am running mutt on the mail server. I suppose I could run it on the > > local machine and IMAP over to it...I hadn't even thought of that. > > > > > attachments anyway, right? Seems like the only thing you have to > > > worry about is setting up the mime/mailcap stuff (which I suck at), and > > > you can view the attachments just by selecting them. Urlview works > > > great for selecting and showing the web addresses. > > > > True...And I too suck at mime/mailcap stuff but I bet I can find a > > tutorial somewhere. > > > > Mutt has allowed me to collect my email on a home server that I can ssh > into from distant places (like China) ans slow connections. I would hate > to give that up. > > Saving attachments and moving them around for viewing does suck. and > help on that would be appreciated.
I have mutt installed on my mailserver too. Precisely so that I can ssh in and run mutt (among other things). But I also have mutt on my local machine and connecting to the imap-ssl server. That's my preferred way to run it. Mutt supports imap-ssl just fine. SSL is rather important for me because my server is on a remote host on the Internet and there are passwords and usernames going back and forth. I also set up squirrelmail(webmail) for those times that I can't get imap-ssl or ssh through a firewall. Even tight corporate firewalls usually let https through :) In any case, a slow connection shouldn't prevent a local client from using the mail server (whether the client is a web browser, or _any_ imap-capable e-mail reader). And running the client locally is the part that gets you around having to download your attachments in a separate step. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
