Re: viewing two multiple mails
* Jiang Qian <jqian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [10-01-07 15:14]:
> Mutt and console application are great, but there's one feature
> in the gui mail clients that I miss: I can open one message in a new
> window, then open another(possibly in another mailbox) to view them
> simultaneously. I know this is probably hard to achieve in a console
> application, but what I want to do at least is this:
> When I view an mail 1 in mailbox/directory 1, then I temporary
> suspend this viewing and go to an mail 2 in mailbox 2(or another message
> in the same mailbox). After consulting with the message 2 and quit,
> I want to return to the same position in the first mail. Currently what
> I do is I close mail 1 and change directory(c) to mailbox 2, but when I
> return to 1, I'm again at the newest message and I have to search again
> to go to message 1.
> Alternatively, I can fire up another instance of mutt in another
> xterm and view the mail. But often I get locking issues from my imap
> server, so that I get kicked out of inbox in instance 1 after using
> instance 2. I don't have this issue when viewing locally stored
> mailbox.
Copy the off-site email to a local directory for display in another
mutt instance and continue to access your imap view.
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