On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:50:09PM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > On 08/26/2006 11:10 AM, s. keeling wrote: > >Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>s. keeling wrote: > >>>mutt "lacking"?!? And you accuse Michelle of being a troll?!? You're > >>>an idiot. HTH. Twit. > >> Ah, yes, the rational response. Sorry, Mutt does lack. > >> > >> It lacks the ability to use the SMTP interface to send mail, being > >> restricted to the command line to get the job done. > > > >It's an MUA. Use SMTP. > > > > I am using SMTP; my MUA supports SMTP. > > > >> It lacks filtering. > > > >Like a washing machine sucks as a dishwasher. > > > >> It lacks a decent IMAP implementation. Hint, IMAP is not a glorified > >> POP. > > > >Don't care. > > > >> It lacks a decent multi-account implementation. Having to configure > >> every > >> single item by hand without the concept of account inheritance is a night > >> mare. > > > >You have a ridiculously complicated "system" for organizing your mail, > >and it's mutt's fault for doing what it does well. No. > > > > There's nothing ridiculous or ridiculously complicated about > supporting multiple e-mail accounts. All of the _advanced_ :-P > MUAs support them (Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Kmail, Balsa, > Evolution, Outlook and Outlook Express [shudder]). > And that is exactly the beauty of mutt. While it doesn't support multiple e-mail accounts out of the box, I can use fetchmail + masqmail (or any other mta I see fit to use) to match my needs. This is the sheer beauty of Unix philosophy. > > >> You may not *agree* with Matej (or me) but that doesn't change > >> the fact that people have the opinion, rightly so, that Mutt is > >> lacking. > > > >They're misinformed. Start with the wrong premises and you'll reach > >the wrong conclusion. Mutt's an MUA. Do one thing, and do it well. > > > > > > I think they're properly informed. It seems that Mutt is last > decade's e-mail technology. Those of you who want to do e-mail > 1996 style, use Mutt. > > It's kinda like having a web-browser that doesn't do cookies > or embedded video or PNG or javascript or flash or CSS or SSL. > Uh, is this name-calling really needed? I could call a GUI mail client bloated and not configurable, you can't even use it from a console (which I am doing at the moment), but what's the point? Live and let live. But I digress. I have to get back to my nethack session (another non-GUI leftover from the 90s).
All the best
Andreas
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