[Wolves] Cygwin/X

Aquarius aquarius-lists at kryogenix.org
Mon Mar 15 16:55:40 GMT 2004


Old Dan spoo'd forth:
>>>Which apps do you want to tunnel?
>> Well, I was thinking of a suggestion someone (Peter O?) made; I wanted
>> a GUI mail client that would co-operate with mutt (without using IMAP)
>> so that I could read mail from my machine itself and while SSHed in,
> ::boggles::
> 
> Why /not/ use IMAP?

It's really slow with mutt, because mutt doesn't cache IMAP folders (I
think).
 
> Then you could use squirrelmail.  Squirrelmail rocks the b*llock, you 
> can use uw-imapd with it (so no messing about with cyrus mailboxes) and 
> there are plugins available which can do everything except tie your 
> shoelaces.
> 
> IMHO.  :)

Web mail sucks the big one. End of discussion. :)

Aq.
 
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