Re: Background mail composition
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:12:42AM +0100, Jack Bertram wrote:
> * 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
>
Except that the remote installation specifically forbids it, I can't
get X through the firewall (that might be possible to overcome), and
it would be (relatively) slow.
> > 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.
>
I have considered that, I run tin in screen (for other reasons), but
as I often have multiple ssh sessions to the remote system anyway the
overhead of starting a second mutt is trivial. Even if I have to
start a new ssh connection it's very quick as I have it set up to
connect without any interaction from me (i.e. no password entry
required) because the systems I connect from are as secure (if not
more secure) than the remote system.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)