Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 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, ... -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
