On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > > the problem with text based MUAs is that you cannot see > > folders/index/message at the same time... (AFAIK, haven't found it in > > mutt or pine) > > Right, AFAIK you can't do that in mutt. On the other hand, I don't find > that essential. GKrellM shows me the number of new messages in each > folder (if I'm working in X), and anyway moving back and forth between > the folder index, message index, and message pager isn't so awful. Mutt > shows messages at the bottom of the screen if new mail arrives in any > folder, which helps.
Not to mention the fact that one can have as many instances of mutt open as one wishes, to view/read multiple folders at the same time. And it will still work fine over ssh links, which is a damn good thing for many people :) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
