Can one run mutt, via ssh, on a system without ncurses (or similar)?

2014-10-10 Thread Chris Green
I have a dlink NAS which has mutt installed on it. It works in command line mode, e.g.:- mutt -s Subject john.sm...@somewhere.com message.txt but it would be useful if I could run it interactively. At present it fails as follows:- ~ $ mutt Error opening terminal: xterm. ~ $

Re: Can one run mutt, via ssh, on a system without ncurses (or similar)?

2014-10-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 04:03:03PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: I have a dlink NAS which has mutt installed on it. It works in command line mode, e.g.:- mutt -s Subject john.sm...@somewhere.com message.txt but it would be useful if I could run it interactively. At present it fails as

Re: Can one run mutt, via ssh, on a system without ncurses (or similar)?

2014-10-10 Thread toogy (Valentin Iovene)
You could also try using tmux or screen (those are multiplexers). It won't resolve your terminfo issues but I think it would be helpful for you. -- toogy (a.k.a. Valentin Iovene) VSRE compliant - http://vsre.info CS student at EPITA President at GConfs

Re: Can one run mutt, via ssh, on a system without ncurses (or similar)?

2014-10-10 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:19:40PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 04:03:03PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: Is there any way I can tell the remote mutt that it has a proper terminal to run in? You can setup your own terminfo database on the NAS. It only needs one entry,

Re: Can one run mutt, via ssh, on a system without ncurses (or similar)?

2014-10-10 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 08:06:19PM +0200, toogy (Valentin Iovene) wrote: You could also try using tmux or screen (those are multiplexers). It won't resolve your terminfo issues but I think it would be helpful for you. I just tend to open multiple ssh connections in terminal windows. --