> >
> > I would guess that much or most of the things you can do with Gnus can 
> > also be done in mutt, but only in a different way. Is there something 
> > specifically you would do in mutt that you do in Gnus now?
> 
> Well, I'm just starting to use Gnus, so I cannot answer this.  Yes, mutt
> can do most of the things about mail, but I believe there must be
> something it can't do, or can't do easily.  Invoking external scripts is
> the solution, but it's hard to write, since they're not integrated to
> mutt.  Now I'm trying Gnus, and if I still failed it, I will probably
> get back to mutt.


Mutt is more modular which means that you can use any programming 
language you like and hook it into muttrc. Perl works great, as does 
Bash, Python, Ruby and other. Mails can also be piped directly to 
scripts of course.


Jostein


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