Mutt depends on curses according to this here, my discussion with Michael:
@hhh: ssh hhh@server.com mutt <--- what is wrong here? trying to run mutt there...
@MichaelMrozek: mutt uses curses, which depends on a lot of terminal manipulation; I imagine it doesn't like being run within ssh like that
The manual has the entry:
ssh [user@]hostname --
[command]
How can I run mutt running locally from outside the server without needing to ssh to it and run mutt directly?
From man 1 ssh
-t Force pseudo-tty allocation. This can be used to execute arbitrary
screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be very useful,
e.g. when implementing menu services. Multiple -t options force tty
allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.
Now mutt has a tty to display it's menus on. (You would use -tt if connecting to mutt remotely via a script from cron, for example.)
ssh -t hhh@server.com mutt
fuse-sshfs package and mount a directory from your local machine onto the system remotely running mutt.
– George M
Apr 30 '12 at 17:43
ssh server.com command runs the command on the remote machine, right? Your question and the comment here make it sound like you think it's somehow running locally
– Michael Mrozek♦
Apr 30 '12 at 18:21
ssh -t? – jw013 Apr 30 '12 at 17:22