Re: Email programs that work.
* Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [26-08-2006 05:57:04 -0500]:
> Mutt is *definitely* lacking. In design.
Yes, mutt is lacking if you compare it with e.g. KMail because mutt is
only a MUA, which requires the services of a MTA (sendmail or such) for
delivering the mail (via SMTP) and fetchmail/sendmail for getting it.
And it requires the service of an MDA such as procmail for doing sorting.
And yes: You also need an external editor like vim or emacs to write the
mail.
So I think, comparing mutt with KMail or Evolution just misses the
point, because those are COMBINATIONS of all the little agents
mentioned above.
One could ask of course, if the whole mta,mda,mua concept is too complex
and time-consuming for a single user wanting to read his mail. One could
also ask if the whole debian concept is too complex for a single user
who just wants to write a letter and print it out. Windows seems to be
much easier sometimes, too. ;-)
m.
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Martin Möller <listen AT andvari.de>
Using Debian etch/testing for amd/64
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