On 2005-06-06, Rogério Brito penned: > On Jun 05 2005, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> For the last few years, I've been running mutt directly on my mail >> server to access mbox-formatted mail. > > I have switched to mutt (from pine) since the pre-1.x days (it's ben > more than 7 years, as far as I can remember) just for reading my > mail in Maildir format and I haven't had any problems with that > (well, besides when Debian's mutt got some header cache problems, > but that was a problem with mutt and not with Maildir exactly).
Yup; I'm not worried about mutt's ability to handle Maildir. I think I've been using mbox because I'm familiar with it and because I know that, push come to shove, more tools support mbox than support Maildir. I also have some logrotate stuff going on (I have procmail save messages to a "backup" mailbox before it applies any rules, then use logrotate to eventually phase out the really old stuff. It saves me from any malformed rules, and it also helps when I realize I've just accidentally deleted a useful email). [snip] >> Sometimes I get an email with a lot of links, and I'd like to just >> middle-click and open them in new tabs. > > This problem you can solve easily with urlview. No, not really. Well, sort of. On machines where I have an xserver installed, I can use that approach, but it's noticably laggier (UI-wise) than running the browser locally. And on machines where I can't run an xserver, it's obviously not an option. And I didn't know that urlview could open things in new tabs of an existing session, but I guess there's no reason it couldn't. (It's just occured to me I could probably cobble together some Java using RMI to address the issue of calling a browser on a different machine ... sounds like a project! I hope no one's done it already.) [snip] >> Yeah, that's just not going to work for me. IMAP is really just a >> means to the end of webmail for me, but webmail is only a secondary >> concern; I need to be able to run mutt, and being able to use >> grepmail and similar utilities is also pretty important. > > What's the problem with having mutt access your mail via IMAP on > your local machine? I've been doing this for quite some time and it > works quite well. And it also opens the possibility of you using, > say, horde as a webmail server which can contact courier-imap to do > its job. It's been a while since I've used IMAP with a regular client, but IIRC it's slower and more cumbersome than direct access. Specifically, it takes a while to load mailboxes, and I have some very large mailboxes. There's also the issue of having to deal with passwords or some sort of authentication method. > It may be that courier and horde aren't the best solutions to the > problem, but the infra-structure that you'll use will mostly be like > that, in terms of the problem you're trying to solve. I've had some trouble installing horde, actually, and I just kind of got annoyed and gave up. Horde provides way, way more than I actually need or want. Dovecot and squirrelmail seem to be okay so far ... -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]