On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:22:20AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:06:00PM +0000, John Long wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:57:02PM +0200, SK wrote: > > ... > > > I too have this problem. I use SSH to connect to a remote server and > > > run mutt inside a tmux session, But I don't know how to view > > > attachments or more importantly attach something locally from the > > > machine accessing the tmux connection to the email from mutt! > > > > The part you quoted above asked if you have X forwarding enabled and if > > you're using it. There is nothing stopping you from opening attachments if > > you have X forwarding enabled and you ssh with -X or -Y. > > > > Maybe this is a dumb question: as we can use IMAP to access remote > mailboxes, could we also use it to access other remote files with > configuration commands and 'source' them?
No, IMAP is specifically an email protocol and isn't good for the general case of files. And even if it was, you would need IMAP servers running on all the other computers... Really this shouldn't be complicated. If you follow up the other poster's suggestions (sorry, lost track of the attribution) about X forwarding in SSH you can accomplish everything you want, as I understand it, and it will be trivial (should work by itself). But the usual caveats apply, for example if you want to open .doc attachments you must have some piece of software on the remote host that can process it. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments Code Blue or Go Home!
