On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:51:54AM +0200, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > Just of curiosity, why are mutt moving away from a mua to a full email > program with mail fetching and mail sending.
Because MUAs really need to do those things in order to be considered fully functional, and because the internet landscape has made it hard for users to run their own services (thank you, spammers). It's really not reasonable to expect or ask users to be fully knowledgable about setting up and maintaining a full-fledged MTA just so they can send e-mail. It's way out of the scope of most people's needs. Granted, there are small, bolt-on apps that do most of these things, but then users need to learn how to configure many different applications with completely different configuration mechansims, instead of just one consistent one. In this day and age, it's too much to ask. Computers are meant to work for humans, not the other way around. Don't get me wrong -- I'm a HUGE fan of the Unix philosophy, and the power of the command line... But there are times when one giant monolithic application with a simple interface and reasonable defaults really is what you need. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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