On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:38:56PM -0800, geneb via cctalk wrote: >> >Before that, I have been using pine (nowadays named alpine), which had >> >configuration edited via builtin options editor and before that, elm, >> >> What about mutt do you prefer over alpine?
I started using mutt about 15 years ago when I was asked for "disc 3 of 3" on a Red Hat Linux install and I was curious what was being pulled from the end of the shelf and it was one and only one package, mutt. I decided to see what was up and why I would want it and I immediately threw out Pine for mutt. I just found the keyboard navigation shortcuts to be entirely intuitive (I liked elm but I never liked Pine) and mutt handled MIME attached files acceptably well for a textual client. I've been using web-based MUAs since I switched to Gmail for personal, and for many corporate e-mail accounts, including at my present employer. I haven't used a textual MUA on UNIX/Linux except 'mail' and mutt since about 2003, but I did use mutt every day from about 2003-2009. -ethan