In other words, once you use Cyrus, you can never access your mail any other way. No thank you. The other imap clients leave your mail in /var/spool/mail. and so when you're local (or sshed in through the firewall) you can read it using mutt directly out of the spool.
Well, yeah. It has advantages and disadvatages. I thought mutt can use IMAP too? Or use Cyrus' spool directory directly (basically, it's just bunch of directories with one file per email, nothing fancy)? Oh, and those nice email tools called grep and less also work with both types of spools quite well ;-)
Even if you decide you are sick and tired of Cyrus, converting it back to mbox format is trivial (just don't forget to sed 's/^From />From /' while you are converting).
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
