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].
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
02-03-2008, 04:21 PM
Pantor
What am I missing without mutt?
Dotan Cohen wrote:
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].
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
You are missing possibility to use coloured letters in messages.
That is main reason to use Mutt.
02-03-2008, 04:27 PM
Александър Л. Димитров
What am I missing without mutt?
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
02-03-2008, 04:36 PM
Jochen Schulz
What am I missing without mutt?
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].
- Ability to use your favourite editor for mail editing
- Complete and fast control via keyboard only
- Easy & fast usage via SSH
- Ability to edit mail headers
- Ability to change configuration parameters depending on recipient,
mail folder and to run commands on certain events
- Ability to use custom spam and other filtering software
- Filtering mail content before viewing (to strip mailing list footers,
decode HTML...)
- Mailing list support
- Support for various mailbox formats (mbox, gzipped mboxes, maildir,
IMAP)
- Non-interactive Command line usability
There's probably more.
J.
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02-03-2008, 04:51 PM
"Dotan Cohen"
What am I missing without mutt?
Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is
the full keyboard control, as none of the other features I need. I'll
start looking for Tbird extensions that might help, or I'll learn to
write my own. I'm glad I asked, though. Thanks.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
02-03-2008, 06:33 PM
Andrew Sackville-West
What am I missing without mutt?
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:36:41PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Dotan Cohen:
> >
> > As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt?
...
> - Easy & fast usage via SSH
I run imap on my mail server with the idea that I can get mail from
anywhere and that's great. But I find, using mutt, that it's really
useless to have imap because odds are if I'm doing mail, I probably
want access to my systems in other ways too. So it turns out I do all
of my mail by ssh to my main box and attaching a screen session. All I
ever use imap for is reading the mail from one side of the room to the
other.
So for me, the easy fast ssh access to mail is the #1 thing about
mutt.
A
02-03-2008, 06:49 PM
"Kelly Clowers"
What am I missing without mutt?
2008/2/3 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>:
> Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is
> the full keyboard control, as none of the other features I need. I'll
> start looking for Tbird extensions that might help, or I'll learn to
> write my own. I'm glad I asked, though. Thanks.
>
My understanding is that XUL's shortcut/keybinding system is
inherently weird and/or underpowered, making it difficult to
put good keybindings in the apps or in extensions. I guess
it has been done in Vimperator (vim-like FF), but as far as I
know, Muttator is purely theoretical at this point.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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02-03-2008, 08:58 PM
Nate Bargmann
What am I missing without mutt?
* ???????????????????? ??. ???????????????? <aleks_d@gmx.de> [2008 Feb 03 11:35 -0600]:
> * No fancy specific format for your mailboxes - mutt can use maildir and mh
> (nobody uses mbox anymore, but mutt actually supports it)
I truly am Nobody! Note that I don't have to create a user when I
install Debian for fun anymore as `nobody' already exists. Those
Debian Devs think of everything for me!
- Nate >>
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02-03-2008, 10:21 PM
Celejar
What am I missing without mutt?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:51:05 +0200
"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is
> the full keyboard control, as none of the other features I need. I'll
> start looking for Tbird extensions that might help, or I'll learn to
> write my own. I'm glad I asked, though. Thanks.
I'm a Sylpheed fan, and not a particularly expert one, and I control it
almost exclusively via keyboard. You can bind custom key combos to
functions using the standard GTK method.
> Dotan Cohen
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02-03-2008, 10:25 PM
Celejar
What am I missing without mutt?
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:33:55 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> So for me, the easy fast ssh access to mail is the #1 thing about
> mutt.
Can't one just tunnel any MUA through ssh, with something like 'ssh -L
110:remote_host:110'?
> A
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