>1) xmh (obsolete, I assume) I would be shocked if people still use xmh; wasn't it written with Athena Widgets? Eww.
>2) MH-E There is a relatively active MH-E community; I'm a vi user myself, so I never tried it. From what I can tell they've extended it to make up for the deficiencies in MH; I can kind of understand that, since there was a period in the 90s when MH development essentially stopped (a long and tortuous period). >3) exmh So, this is the one I use. Sadly, I kind of wish development had progressed on this a bit more. It's mostly functional, but not perfect. Brent Welch doesn't work on it anymore; I believe Valdis still has commits privs on it, but a new release hasn't appeared in a while (changes still get committed to the tree, though). It's also written in Tcl, which seems to have fallen out of favor but still is being developed. I still hold a soft spot in my heart for Tcl, so maybe I'm biased. >4) MH-V Written by Steve Rader after he got tired of the crap from the Claws Mail people. Written in Perl. I did try it out, but I think Steve used an old version of nmh, because it gave me some errors when I ran it (but it had basic functionality). I believe there are users of it, but I don't know how many. >Could you please give a brief assesment of each, based on your experience? >Which one would be the best bet for a newbie? I'm not sure I am the best person to answer you, but ones that are probably the most complete out of those are MH-E and exmh. I have no idea if anyone has updated xmh to be compatible with nmh, and I don't even know if it supports MIME (I see it still ships with X11, but I can't believe anyone has tested it recently). I will note that AFAIK the only front-end that works with GNU Mailutils is MH-E. I do not believe any of the other front-ends have been tested with GNU Mailutils, but I could be wrong. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
