Dotan Cohen wrote: > How can I read my Thunderbird mail in the terminal? I am starting to > access my home machine via SSH at the university and this would be > very useful. > > I have been familiarizing myself with mutt, but do not know how to get > it to use Thunderbirds files. They are in mbox format in my > thunderbird profile. I want both programs to be able to access them. > > Also, would it be neccassary/recommended to shut down thunderbird > before reading the mail with mutt? If so, how could I do this? Tbird > is started in KDE, so it does not show up in jobs in a terminal. > > Thanks in advance. > > Dotan Cohen > If you have X forwarding enabled, you could run Thunderbird on your home machine, and have the display on the university machine. You do need an X server running on the university machine. If you are running Windows, there are some Java X servers you can run, ether in a web browser, or as a Windows program. I remember running across a couple that included SSH to connect to the remote machine. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
