* Jiang Qian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-01-07 15:14]: > Mutt and console application are great, but there's one feature > in the gui mail clients that I miss: I can open one message in a new > window, then open another(possibly in another mailbox) to view them > simultaneously. I know this is probably hard to achieve in a console > application, but what I want to do at least is this: > When I view an mail 1 in mailbox/directory 1, then I temporary > suspend this viewing and go to an mail 2 in mailbox 2(or another message > in the same mailbox). After consulting with the message 2 and quit, > I want to return to the same position in the first mail. Currently what > I do is I close mail 1 and change directory(c) to mailbox 2, but when I > return to 1, I'm again at the newest message and I have to search again > to go to message 1. > Alternatively, I can fire up another instance of mutt in another > xterm and view the mail. But often I get locking issues from my imap > server, so that I get kicked out of inbox in instance 1 after using > instance 2. I don't have this issue when viewing locally stored > mailbox.
Copy the off-site email to a local directory for display in another mutt instance and continue to access your imap view. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
