* SGT. Garcia <[email protected]> [02-28-15 16:24]: > On Feb 28 12:48 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * SGT. Garcia <[email protected]> [02-28-15 11:21]: > > > ...the notion exist in browsers (elinks, firefox) but i was wondering if > > > one could send remote commands to a running instance of mutt? for example > > > to send mailto: uri action from a browser/cli/script. > > > > certainly, configuragle within your browser. Something like: > > mailto: /usr/bin/mutt %s > > or perhaps: > > /usr/bin/xterm -e /usr/bin/mutt %s > > but those would start a new _instance_ of mutt. i always have mutt running > on tty1; i want to send mailto: command, if you like, to it.
There is no problem I am aware of running multiple instances of mutt as long as you have file-locking. I have been using mutt this way for > 10 years. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
