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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.
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
Apr 30, 2012 at 18:21
ssh -t?