* Puneet Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> [02-26-11 19:02]: > > The reason I like mutt is because of its speed. All the programs I have > mentioned above start breaking down in speed, perhaps hampered by the > complexity of drawing the user interface, or doing whatever > house-keeping they need to do behind the scene. > > The reason I use IMAP is because I want my mail to be available on a > remote server so I don't have to worry about backing it up, so I can > access it from anywhere, using any client, if I need to. That said, for > the most part, I access my email from my laptop, that is always with me. > > My email is hosted on Gmail (Google apps) which takes care of spam, > storage, tagging, etc. However, I also want a copy of my email on my > computer. In my ideal situation, I have an exact copy of all my email > on my laptop as it is on Gmail's servers. That way, I can > access/read/search my email even if I am not connected to the Internet. > > So, as far as I am concerned, my email reader is a reader for a local > email storage (I guess this was mutt's traditional role) which it > downloads from my IMAP server (mutt's new role). When I send my mail > out, my mail reader bot keeps a copy of the outgoing mail, as well as > ensure a copy lands up on the remote server. > > There is a lot about mutt that I (right now) find to be a pain in the > butt. I can't jump to web links in the text easily (alpine does a > really nice job of this), mairix is still not working for me, > integration with the rest of the Mac OS X system is spotty, out-going > email addresses are not automatically collected as aliases, etc. I am > sure I will figure it out as long as I keep at it. I am already a lot > better at mutt than I was when I started a month of so ago in earnest. > > But I do miss a bunch of features in other mail clients. I want the > technology to assist me, not get in my way. The GUI programs get in my > way by being slow even while they assist me by ensuring that most basic > tasks are already configured for me. mutt gets in my way by making me > configure every tiny aspect of it, but assists me by being really fast.
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