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Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors



On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:21:55PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> I agree.  Mutt should by default be much more like pine. I like all my
> multiple folders, each containing the mail from one mailing list, and
> I like being able to easily navigate between them like pine allows.

huh? mutt's folder navigation/selection ability is much better than
pine's.

when selecting a folder to go to (or to save messages to), you've got a
prompt with command-line history/recall/edit. you can also press TAB and
get a selectable list of all mail folders in mutt's CWD. press TAB again
and you get a list of all defined incoming mailboxes.


mutt also lets you access mail folders anywhere on your disk, and not
just in ~/mail. e.g. run "mutt -f /var/spool/mail/www-data" as root
(to check the bounces from poorly written cgi formmail scripts)...you
can't do that in pine without copying the file to /root/mail or making a
symlink.


craig

ps: if you prefer pine, then just use it. there's no need to make every
mail client as bad as pine...some of us like mutt the way it is and
don't want to see it mangled into an awkward pine clone.

--
craig sanders


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