On Sep 12, 2011 at 04:39 PM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
Ah! Package systems, that is valuable info.
I'd definitely recommend homebrew over the others. A lot less messy and easier to install and manage in my mind.
As far as installing mutt, even though I have a lot of stuff installed with homebrew, I find it more customizable to compile mutt by hand. I have a shell script that updates my hg repository of mutt, sets my configure options, and compiles it. Though homebrew does have 1.5.21 with tokyo-cabinet. It has the following selectable patches: sidebar, trash, slang, ignore-thread, and PGP verbose mime.
Everything else should be more or less like what you have on Linux. If you use vim or emacs for composing, you are set for editors. If you wish to use one of the Mac text editors (which you most likely won't since you are coming from Linux), you can use a wrapper shell script to call them. I used BBEdit for composing mail with mutt for a couple years and had a script that wrapped my text for format flowed and did some other things. Now I use Vim. Check out MacVim if you are a vim user. You can use it from the terminal, but the gvim that comes with MacVim has been modified for OS X in some nice ways.
I'd also recommend checking out iTerm. I never really liked it enough to move away from Terminal in the last 10 years until very recently. Terminal has gotten better, but the latest versions of iTerm are very nice. Especially if you use mutt - you can set up iTerm to handel mailto URLs pretty easily.
