* Carlos E. R.
If mutt serves all your needs, then certainly, mutt via ssh is fine. But there are more uses than accessing email from another machine: I use it because I can read an email with Alpine, then also start Thunderbird and read another email with html, and have both Th and alpine at the same time reading the same folder.
And I can start multiple ssh instances and do the same and/or open multiple xterm screens from a single ssh instance and do the same and/or I can open an ssh instance of screen/tmux and do the same :^)
And the advantage of dovecot for us is that it can read mail folders on your home, and you still can use mutt/alpine to access those folders in the old way, directly. Dovecot can share.
But I can still do the same with less installed software and fewer open ports via ssh :^)
That is, I still can use mail exactly as I did before installing dovecot. The rest of the chain is the same one, unmodified: fetchmail, postfix, amavis, spamassassin, procmail.
This is the primary reason that I began using ssh and I can also open a vncviewer instance and run X directly from my home machine. How is it said, "Many ways to skin a cat" :^) I still find that ssh [-Y} is the simplest. And you could do the same with ssh/pine/alpine/????. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org