On 06Dec2009 15:19, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[email protected]> wrote: | I am sure other people as well are using mutt on remote hosts. | I like to gather all my e-mail on one machine and run mutt from | there, wherever I am. I am doing this for many years now. | | When attachments arrives I must save it by hand, scp it to my local | host and see it using an appropriate viewer. | | I would like to make that automatic. Before I go and write procedures | for this I am asking if someone already did this, so I don't need to | reinvent the wheel. The shell from witch mutt runs knows about | $REMOTEHOST. I also use ssh-agent, so no need to worry about passwords | and stuff.
I tackle the viewing part by connecting to the main machine with "ssh -Y" to forward my X11 connection, and run the viewer on the main machine, _displayed_ on the local machine. -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The elliptical cam has gradually slid up the beam shaft and caught on the flange rebate dislodging the gripley, with disastrous results. - Death, 'Reaper Man' (Pratchett)
