On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:29:52PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 01:31:57PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > You're probably better off using (local) IMAP over SSH with your Mutt > > mailboxes. That is, you can ssh into your mail server and run imapd > > locally (rather than having it listen to incoming connections), and > > Mutt supports this. > > > I've never got on well with IMAP and mutt.
But have you tried running it locally over SSH? There are a lot of factors that matter (and I admit I don't use it, but I don't really deal with attachments much), but when I tried it I found it was a very different animal than network-based IMAP. It has different performance tradeoffs and benefits/drawbacks. If you haven't tried it, I would highly encourage you to do so. You do still have to transfer your messages and attachments over SSH (but you were doing that anyway), but you do get to display them locally, which makes a lot of difference. Or can, depending on your exact usage patterns. I think it may get you most of what you want, and if so you may be able to throw away any hacking you've done to deal with your problem. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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