Re: Email programs that work.
Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>:
> >> 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.
>
> Exactly. I would love to but it can't.
Mine uses exim and fetchmail all the time.
> >> It lacks filtering.
>
> > Like a washing machine sucks as a dishwasher.
>
> Yet filtering belongs in the client, especially if that client has
> multiple accounts since one wouldn't want the same filters to apply to al=
> l accounts.
Filtering does not belong in the client. mutt's an MUA. It calls
filtering programs to do filtering, as it should.
> >> It lacks a decent IMAP implementation. Hint, IMAP is not a glorified
> >> POP.
>
> > Don't care.
>
> You don't. I do. I rather like being able to read mail on my Debian
> laptop, my WinXP Game machine or any machine with a web-capable browser and
> get all of my mail all of the time.
So? I rather like not having my mail held hostage to others'
ineptitude. Once it's on my box, it's safe from others' configuration
hiccups.
> >> It lacks a decent multi-account implementation. Having to configure
> >> every single item by hand without the concept of account inheritance
> >> is a nightmare.
>
> > You have a ridiculously complicated "system" for organizing your mail,
> > and it's mutt's fault for doing what it does well. No.
>
> A rediculously complicated system? What's so complicated about it.
> Let's see, I have home mail and I have work mail. I configure my home account
> with 1 signature, 1 POP/IMAP server, 1 SMTP server. All the mail
> remains separate.
> All my home filters only apply to my home mail. I need a work account I
> configure 1 signature, 1 POP/IMAP server, 1 SMTP server. All mail remains
> separate. All my work filters only apply to my work mail.
I have three signature files, fetchmail pops from any number of
servers I tell it to, [shudder] procmail knows by reading Received:
lines where the mail came from. Some recipes act on some IPs and some
act on other IPs. [shudder] procmail sorts it all into the proper
incoming folders, possibly auto-forwards crap to spamcop (among other
options), mutt saves replies to the proper storage folders, ...
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