Gus Wirth wrote: > Neil Schneider wrote: > >Gus Wirth wrote: > > > >>Mutt has direct support for IMAP. Why can't you just ssh into > >>your (Neil's) mail server and use mutt there? No need to keep > >>your own mail server running, someone else does the backups (I > >>hope!) and you still get to use mutt over ssh from anywhere. > > > >You can use mutt from your local machine and connect to my imap > >server. That's what I do, when I use mutt. > > I saw that after reading the docs a bit. Looks like you can use > an encrypted connection giving you the benefits of ssh while > having a local copy of mutt.
I use regularly use mutt with SSL to connect to my imaps server. Of course, there has to be a server running with SSL for that to be an option. Mutt support for imap isn't very pretty, in general, but it is doing well otherwise. I usually just bounce on the space key to find out the next folder with new mail. I rarely navigate the menu list of folders. What I wish mutt had was access to a utility that would let me define/use "virtual folders" like evolution does. I'd just use evolution if it weren't for the fact that I generally keep my mail up in a long-running screen session. Then, additionally, there's the fact that evolution was bloated, slow, and generally annoying last time I used it. Ain't planning to try it again. Wade Curry syntaxman -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
