I sometimes ssh into my machine from work and use Mutt. The
connection through the firewall, however, is, uh, a bit tenuous
and often gets dropped. Sometimes this happens when I am
composing a message. Is there a good way to recover these
compositions and pick up where I left off?
I'm using
On Mon, Jan 7, 2002, Samuel Padgett wrote:
I sometimes ssh into my machine from work and use Mutt. The
connection through the firewall, however, is, uh, a bit tenuous
and often gets dropped. Sometimes this happens when I am
composing a message. Is there a good way to recover these
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:09PM -0500, Samuel Padgett wrote:
I sometimes ssh into my machine from work and use Mutt. The
connection through the firewall, however, is, uh, a bit tenuous
and often gets dropped. Sometimes this happens when I am
composing a message. Is there a good way to
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
vim -r will give you a list of recoverable temp files. Rarely fails
me.
Yes, but then how do I actually send the message. Cut-n-paste
into a new composition buffer?
I was hoping Mutt had some facility to notice /tmp/mutt-* files
that are unsent and
Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A better way to handle this is to run screen on your work machine. Then
when your connection drops, simply re-logon to your work machine, run
'screen -r' to re-attach the screen session, and pick up where you left
off.
This is a really good idea.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2002, Samuel Padgett wrote:
vim -r will give you a list of recoverable temp files. Rarely fails
me.
Yes, but then how do I actually send the message. Cut-n-paste
into a new composition buffer?
I was hoping Mutt had some facility to notice /tmp/mutt-* files
that are
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAIK, it is up to the editor, not mutt. When in vim, go to
':help recover' and it will tell you what you need to know. IOW
you can do it right from within vim.
I guess my point is that there are a lot of manual steps here:
start new composition, use
Sam --
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Rather than cut-n-paste I
