On Fri Mar 01, 2002 at 10:20:01AM -0500, Ken Wahl wrote: > Why mutt? > > Speed and flexibility. > > If you subscribe to a number of mailing lists which are generally > high-volume then mutt makes speedy navigation a breeze. > > Mutt is so highly configurable that I imagine no 2 person' mutts are > alike. I switched from Netscape to Pine for flexibility and options and > then from Pine to Mutt for even more. Mutt gives you choices about how > to handle your mail that you wouldn't even have thought of while using > another client. Mutt makes handling your email a highly personalized > experience. > > This flexibility comes at the price of having a learning curve when it > comes to setup and configuration but I don't see how you could have this > level of flexibility any other way. > > To be honest, I had considered switching from Pine to Mutt several > months before I actually did. My initial perusal of the muttrc left me > somewhat overwhelmed so I put it down and came back later. I had only > been using linux for a few months and wasn't ready for it yet. > > Using Mutt, I believe, has actually accelerated my progress at becoming > a proficient user of Linux. It changed my perspective and my > preferences from a GUI based one to a console based one. I remember > hearing long-time linux users say that the command line gives so much > more power, control and flexibility and I could intellectually > understand the reasons they gave but it wasn't until after I had been > using Mutt for a while that I developed a gut level appreciation for > that point of view. > > Using Mutt also led to me using Vim as my choice editor. I know it was > something written by Sven somewhere that convinced me of it but I don't > recall if it was at his site, in a newsgroup or on this mailing list. > Up till then I had been using GUI editors outside of mail and pico with > mutt because I become accustomed to it in Pine. Now I use vim for > everything and am grateful for having my eyes opened to it. > > I hope that the Mutt developers don't decide to make it more "useable" > by dumbing it down. I believe this leads to applications geared > toward the lowest common denominator and you end up with MUA's like > LookOut! and OS's like M$. > > Mutt + vim + fetchmail + procmail + lbdb + gnupg + mixmaster = nirvana
Well said! Tim
