>>>>> "Rai" == H S Rai <H.S.Rai> writes:
Rai> On this list I heard a lot of praise of Mutt, and now persons are
Rai> talking of Gnus. Though there is tones of information available on
Rai> net, but I would like to know from list members that what is there
Rai> in Gnus which can't be done by Mutt. What is the experience of
Rai> persons who shifted from Mutt to Gnus. Are they just experimenting
Rai> or have really gained something.
I used Mutt for almost a year, and now, for a month or so, I'm using
Gnus. I still am a Gnus newbie, but can give you a comparison of Gnus Vs
Mutt. This is obviously biased towards Gnus, so Mutt people, don't flame me
here. People are usually touchy about their text editors, mail clients,
distros etc. ;-)
First of all, I like Mutt. It's small, fast, very customizable. I still use
it when telnetting to machines where I don't have my Emacs/Gnus
customizations handy. I think the combination of Mutt + fetchmail +
procmail is a fantastic way of emailing. To quote Michael Elkins, "Mutt is
an MUA which sucks a lot less".
I was quite satisifed with Mutt and my migration to Gnus was prompted by
curiosity rather than necessity. As a student, I had plenty of time to do
these sort of experiments. ;-)
Here're the some of the advantages of using Gnus over Mutt.
* Gnus is a mail agent as well as news reader. So if you prefer to use the
same program for reading news as well as mail, you may want to use Gnus.
* Gnus is an Emacs subsystem. So if you are a person who spends most of his
time in Emacs, you may not want to switch window for reading your
mail. ;-)
* Because Gnus is just an extension to Emacs, you can use all of Emacs's
features, including macros, incremental searching, and all the editing
commands etc in Gnus also.
* An integrated database with information about people (BBDB). Mutt doesn't
have an integrated address book, IIRC. (Nowadays I hear about something
called LBDB for Mutt.)
* Support for more mail backends: Maildir, mbox, BABYL... You name it, you
have it. AFAIK, Mutt supports only mbox. (Correct me if I'm wrong
here...)
* More funky citations with Supercite etc.
* Multipart/HTML mails may be displayed inline in Gnus. (Unlike Mutt where
you have to call a browser like Lynx to read HTML mails).
* Full GUI support under X.
* Better looks. ;-)
* A far better name. ;-)
All these, without losing *any* of the power of Mutt. If you want, you can
edit even the message-id. ;-)
Also there are plenty of features like scoring etc which are present in
Mutt as well.
The disadvantages I've noted are.
* Gnus requires Emacs or XEmacs.
* Speed. Because Gnus is written in Elisp, it may be *slightly* slower than
Mutt. But the difference is not much noticeable.
Ofcourse, I may be missing many points here...
Anoop
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