On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:30:36PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Whilst you're listing text-based mail clients, there's nmh, but it > > > doesn't like HTML either. > > > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ > > > http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/whymh.html > > > > > > There's not a lot of development work being done on it these days > > > though. > > > > Ye gods, I'd managed to forget mh. Self-defence I think. Even the > > old mali(1) client was less bad. It was probably fine when people > > only got a couple of messages a day and didn't need to thread > > conversations, but even it havving a command line interface doesn't > > get my vote. > > On the contrary, it was created in order to cope with a heavy mail load > each day, though possibly not heavy by today's standards. They ran a > support desk IIRC. I find I can type commands to filter this 20,000 > email folder quickly, giving the results names for later use. > > # Search all emails in current folder for those with a subject > # containing `horizon' that are from washington and were sent over a > # week ago. > pick -sub horizon -and -from washington -and -before -7 -sequence horiz > pick -su horizon -an -f washington -an -b -7 -seq horiz > > # List the first ten, one per line. > scan horiz:10 > > With personal ~/bin scripts like -sub for `pick ${0##*/} "$@" && scan > lp' and `sc' for `scan last:20' it gets quicker. And I can mix its > commands up with awk, sort, etc., for the more unusual cases.
That's fine if you already know what the subjects are, etc. With ordinary email lists I don't, so mutt threads them and positions me at the first unread one, and I can see the thread tree. If I want the next unread I hit TAB, I can go up and down easily, etc. I can see that it would be useful to do the sort of things you describe, but I've got grepmail which does most of that on mbox files. > Pine seemed to be too tedious for frequent use, and although my fingers > breathe vi I could never see the point of them learning mutt just to do > email. That was from years ago though, perhaps things have improved. Well, most of the usual commands in mutt are vi anyway -- j for down and k for up for instance (or you can use the cursor keys). Enter to see a message, r to reply, f to forward. Pretty intuitive. No menus. No GUI. Chris C _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
