Hello, for the umptieth time I'm trying to give mutt a spin. I've heard it recommended many times, and I'd like to try it out. After getting dissatisfied with pine I've come a long way to Claws-Mail via Opera and Thunderbird. I'm happy with Claws except that I'm not happy with GUI apps in general.
So, let's try out mutt. However, there doesn't seem so be a "just try it out". There is a steep learning curve to be mastered first. For instance, after half a day of tearing out my hair and having so many mutt webpages open that I the tabs on the top of my browser started getting blurriy, I managed to connect to my IMAP server like this: set spoolfile=imap://email.server.org/INBOX Great. Now I can see my inbox. And nothing else. How can I see my other folders on that server? 'c ?' doesn't show anything. Speaking of folders. Mutt looks into the same folder hierarchy as my current sylpheed-claws setup. But it only shows me top-level folders. When I enter a folder it doesn't show me any subfolders. Does mutt not support nested folders? Then I can't use it. I've also managed to set up fetchmail, which fetches mail from several POP3 accounts into one repository where I can access it if and only if I comment out the above line. To sort out those mails I guess I'll have to feed them through procmail, but where will they end up then, and how will mutt check for new mails and tell me about it? Is there some kind of overview of folders that can receive mail? How can I have "multiple identites"? Sometimes I'm sending mail under my private address, sometimes as an employee of my company. How can this be managed by mutt? When I reply to mail, can mutt automatically use the address under which I received that mail as the sender identity? Next thing. The address book. There seems to be an external program called "abook" that adds some rudimentary address book functionality. But I work on largish projects that frequently require me to set up ad-hoc lists of eight or more people which I can send mail to by typing a single "nick name". I also need to be able to quickly add addresses to those lists by some selection method (like Pine's "List mode"). Judging from its nerdy user base I had hoped (and am still hoping) that mutt was some kind of power-user MUA, but especially the apparent lack of advanced address management might turn out to be a deal breaker. I hope someone can clue me in. I have a repository for software that I will never get my head around. Emacs has been in there after invoking it once and not being able to quit it except by killing it from another console. Vi after one week during which I forced myself to use nothing but vi. Mutt seems so be ready to join. Maybe I'm just not the geek I'd like to be. In short, my requirements are: - Multiple accounts (both local and remote) - Multiple identites - Folders with subfolders - Powerful address management Does mutt cutt it? --D.
