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 <grey@dmiyu.org>:
> >>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
> Cheers
> :-P
>
>
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