On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:33:30AM +0530, Anoop Johnson wrote: > 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. ;-)
Hmm... which school college is this, anyway?? > 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. Mutt is a mail client. Period. Compare it with the mail client features of Gnus. Compare the news reader features of Gnus to, say, slrn (which, incidentally, is the best news client I have ever seen). > * 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. ;-) Even though I use emacs very frequently, I found VM's default behaviour of starting up in a new frame irritating. > * 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. If you use the emacs server, then emacs can be used to edit emails in mutt too. I believe vim is also getting this client/server functionality soon. Though all the features (incremental searching, macros etc.) are present in vim too. > * 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.) lbdb is fairly old. Its got a bbdb module as well. :-) It hooks into both emacs and mutt. Though it stores only email addresses, what else do you need when you are using a mail client?? > * 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...) B.S. - Mutt supports both Maildir and mbox. And even mh mailboxes. > * More funky citations with Supercite etc. This I think I should attribute to the editing interface of emacs. I am sure if one uses emacsclient as the editor in mutt, one can use supercite with mutt too. > * Multipart/HTML mails may be displayed inline in Gnus. (Unlike Mutt where > you have to call a browser like Lynx to read HTML mails). You mean mutt is bad because it does not include the functionality of a web browser?? > * Full GUI support under X. > * Better looks. ;-) > * A far better name. ;-) Yeah. Microsoft *sounds* a much better name for a software company than anything else. Also, according to consensus, the Windows GUI is better looking, and almost every piece of software written for Windows hooks into that GUI. > All these, without losing *any* of the power of Mutt. If you want, you can > edit even the message-id. ;-) Its not recommended. It has to be unique across the globe, and for every email ever generated, and its better to let the software generate it. > Ofcourse, I may be missing many points here... One very important point. Mutt implements only an email messages management interface. For other purposes (rendering MIME parts, Editing, Mail transport) it depends on other specialised software. Just the fact that there exists emacs software that does these things doesn't mean that an emacs based mail client (that hooks into emacs the way other software do) is better. Most of the features you find in Gnus is courtesy other emacs modules and hence, your comparison is almost similar to saying my RedHat 7.3 is a better mail client than your Microsoft Outlook because its got a webserver and 50 games in-built. Got the point? Binand -- If you found this helpful, please take some time off to rate it: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=binand ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
