Quoth Dotan Cohen: > As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, > if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of > the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. What you're missing? Tedious fetchmail/procmail/maildrop/exim/sendmail-configuration, 200-lines .muttrc... No seriously, mutt is king - once you've set it up. What you're missing? Well, how about 'navigating completely from keyboard' using mostly vi-like shortcuts? * Being able to look at your mail when you have no XServer (remotely, your driver's hosed, whatever). * You don't have to wait 30 seconds for your MUA to fire up, everything responds just as quickly as you'd like it to. * No fancy specific format for your mailboxes - mutt can use maildir and mh (nobody uses mbox anymore, but mutt actually supports it) * Enhanced regular expressions for organizing your mail (delete all unread mails between date x and y with foo in their Sender: field). * Great console integration - you can pipe everything into any program... * Flexibility! * Geek-factor... * No bulky graphics. Your mail and just your mail. * You can watch multiple mailboxes at a time - just fire up another instance. * In Debian, mutt can handle most attatchments by invoking the proper application. I probably missed out a lot Aleks
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