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Re: Background mail composition



* Chris Green <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> [031015 09:06]:
> 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.

Why not?  X is a remote protocol so you could forward your X connection
over ssh

> 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.

Why don't you run mutt within screen?  Then you could simply start
another screen window without needing a new ssh session.

> 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.

I do exactly the same but use mutt and screen.

jack