Re: Email client programs

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Craig Dickson wrote:
> 
> Erik Steffl wrote:
> 
> >   IMO the MUA should not handle storage of email, so this is a non an
> > issue:-) [the real causality goes in the other way]
> 
> Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers.
> That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA is the thing for
> interactively moving mails from one folder to another.

  mail retrieval is indeed separate issue (and it can be both job of
fetchamil (active retrieval) and MTA (accepting delivery))

  then there's mail storage - IMO the task for IMAP server

  only then the MUA comes in - in between user and IMAP, the actual
email manipulation is doen by IMAP, MUA is only proxy between user and
IMAP.

  this kind of setup has number of important advantages (I definitely
wouldn't go back), you can access email remotely, from different MUAs
etc.

> >   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.

  I guess, I still like to see it all at once... I guess I can open few
windows, each with it's own view:-)

  BTW the other annoying thing is that it requires password to IMAP
everytime I start it - is there a way to have passwordless access to
IMAP from mutt?

	erik