Hi Patrick, I use screen but locally. I used to access my mail on the server through ssh/screen/mutt, but then I had trouble seeing some non-text attachments. Sometimes I use a VNC server on my office and a client in my laptop in order to use mutt at the server and display my attachments correctly, but my network is not too reliable, so a local mutt and a remote IMAP server seems to have worked best for me, with the small annoyance of duplicated configuration files. Regards and thanks, Luis
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:29:49PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Luis Mochan <moc...@fis.unam.mx> [07-26-12 22:25]: > > I receive my email at a desktop in my office and I access it through > > mutt at my office and remotely through my laptop using IMAP. Thus, I > > have configuration files at my desktop and at my laptop. However, there > > are parts of the configuration which should be identical, such as my > > list of alias and a few macros. Having several copies yields occasional > > inconsistencies. Is there a reasonable way to keep some configuration > > files at my office and source them remotely from my laptop when I start > > mutt? Similarly, I would like to be able to update the files at my > > office when I define a new alias at my laptop. An alternative would be > > to use a revision control system to update and synchronize the relevant > > files among my computers, but I wonder if there is a simpler solution. > > I have my mail and mutt on a server and remotely access it so there is > only one place for configuration files and .... I open a tmux session, > similar to screen, and remotely access that tmux session from where-ever. > I even read my mail on site from another computer. > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 > http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member > Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- o W. Luis Mochán, | tel:(52)(777)329-1734 /<(*) Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM | fax:(52)(777)317-5388 `>/ /\ Apdo. Postal 48-3, 62251 | (*)/\/ \ Cuernavaca, Morelos, México | moc...@fis.unam.mx /\_/\__/ O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
