Mike Leone on 9 Nov 2007 01:37:19 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail


Morgan Jones wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> If you're looking for terminal based mail over an unstable/slow
> connection I would suggest a combination of screen and mutt.
> 
> Basically: ssh into the machine, start a screen session and run mutt
> inside of it.  If the session drops screen will keep your session open.
>  You can just re-connect to the session when you log back in.

Exactly what I do.

And you can have multiple screen sessions, so I've disconnected from one
session, and run a security update in the other, then switched back and
continued reading email, exactly where I left off.

Darxus gave me that idea from a post of his, years ago. :-)
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