[Wolves] Cygwin/X

[Aquarius]

Peter Oliver spoo'd forth:
> 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?

Hell, I can't decide. I'm still unclear. I *think* I don't want to go to
a pure GUI mailer and nothing else, because of the SSH thing -- yes,
I would be OK from work with a Cygwin/X installation, but not from
anywhere else: I sshed in from my dad's last night to check my mail.

Aq.

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