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Re: Background mail composition



On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:53:07PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, I do like the idea of your other approach and would
> like to see it develop some more.  I personally postpone messages when I
> need to get back to the index but am not finished, but I also don't use X
> or color with my mutt and people think I'm a wacko just for that :-)
> 
Well I use (a little) colour but I don't use X with mutt because I
can't.  I read my mail on a remote system via an ssh connection so
although I'm running X on the local (desktop) system that doesn't
really help mutt on the remote system.

If I really want to look at som other mail while composing I just
start up another ssh window to the remote system and run a second copy
of mutt, it is a bit clumsy though so any way of automating the
process would be useful.

For the record reading mail using mutt on a remote system via ssh
works well for me as I can thus use the same copy of mutt from both
home and work.  I know I could use IMAP but I find mutt with local
mailboxes more confortable and easier to use.

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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)