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Re: [PLUG] remote-ish mail
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Morgan Jones wrote:
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> Jeff,
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> If you're looking for terminal based mail over an unstable/slow
> connection I would suggest a combination of screen and mutt.
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> 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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