[Wolves] Cygwin/X

[David Goodwin]

Peter Oliver wrote :
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Aquarius wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> But I though the whole point of this exercise was to get rid of Mutt in 
> favour of a GUI mailer?
> 

I *think* Balsa uses the same mailboxes as mutt - it may even be a gui
front end to mutt... it's been a while since I've used it, but I'm sure
there is some link between the two programs.

David.