On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:10:58PM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > I combine the best of both worlds. On most machines, if I want mail, > I run mutt locally with mail retrieved from an IMAP server. How does that compare speed-wise with using ssh to go to where the mail is and running mutt there? The advantage of using ssh is that any O/S runs something equivalent to ssh. Not so many things run mutt, and I don't want to be pulling my mail down to a public machine anyway. -- - Ian! D. Allen - idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://www.idallen.com/ - Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Open Source / Linux) via: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Support the public commons and public digital rights: http://eff.org/