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Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face



On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I tested Wanderlust for Emacs, but I don't like the tons of short-cuts.

What do you mean by "short-cuts"? If you mean keyboard navigation, that is
what Mutt is all about. One keypress does one thing, while another does
something different. Because there is no GUI, it's 100% entirely driven by
the keyboard. So, the term "short-cuts" doesn't really apply here, as it's
the _only_ way to get around. In a GUI, I would imagine there are keyboard
"short-cuts" to mimic behavior that a mouse would do.

> > Hm? Has Mutt a search option? The German Eiki says it one an award, but
> > KMail won an award too.
>
> Mutt has several search options and many shortcuts :)
>
> I am using a maildir setup and with the maildir-utils I can use F8 to
> search all my mail and F9 to browse the result.

I haven't setup Mutt to read local mail, personally, so I haven't really
researched the search options and availability. I use it behind IMAP, and
rely on my IMAP provider for searching, filtering and labeling mail. I just
want my MUA to be a dummy-terminal, so-to-speak, to my mail.

> I have not come across another mail client that can handle large volumes
> of emails as efficiently as mutt (combined with .procmail, maildir and
> maildir-utils).  If you are not used to text-based mail clients it might
> take some time to get used to, but the learning is worth while.

Agreed. I have surpassed 80,000 messages with my email provider, and still
going strong. Mutt is the only MUA that I have used that I can rip through
that amount of mail with little effort. And given all of its powerd and
extensibilities, I have a hard time using other clients. Plus, it's 100%
standards compliant, which not only is important for me using a web
browser, but also important for my mail.

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