On Sunday 03 May 2009 06:06:54 James wrote: > Alan, > > Thanks for the response. :) > > I've thought about doing something similar to this, but it's a last > resort. I end up using mutt on various different workstations and it'd > be nice to run everything "locally". Obviously a solution where I'm > fetching mail on every machine where I'm using mutt doesn't scale very > well.
I've got several hard-core network engineer users with the same problem. They solved it in a neat way, by running mutt in a permanent screen session on a server I provided for the purpose. Getmail is now not necessary as I deliver their mail to that machine. Working on the LAN and from home over vpn it just works, connecting from home without vpn is a simple matter of ssh port forwarding. Their shell profiles on every workstation runs screen and .screenrc is set up to automatically connect to that server. It works for them and is just geeky enough to appeal :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
