On May 12, 2012 at 06:51 PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote:
I'm going to be replacing my old, rapidly dying systems with a
Mac next month, and am wondering if anyone here has used Mutt
on Mac OS X (Lion). I'm curious about how that's working out,
etc. (I've never actually SEEN Mac OS X, so I don't know how
much of the Unix base is still there).
Yup, works fine, been doing it for years. I'd recommend checking out,
in no particular order:
- msmtp or putmail.py
- homebrew for a package manager - much more straight foward than
macports or fink in my mind
- iTerm, the newer one, as a replacement for Terminal.app. Terminal.app
works, but iTerm is better. You can also set up iTerm to handle
mailto: urls and open up a mutt instance automatically
If you are using the OS X address book app and/or keychain, there are
some tips and tricks that enable reasonable integration. I for one love
the OS X address book because it works with my phone and syncs
wirelessy. As far as a speller, I compose my email in Vim and use the
speller that is built in. If using Vim, you might want to check out
MacVim [1]. OS X comes with Vim, but MacVim is a lot nicer, has a gui
if you want, and if you don't want a gui, you can just link the
executable to /usr/local/bin or something.
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
