geoffroy tremblay said : > mutt has always interested me but I always blocked at the > installation, not of mutt, but of the getmail, then the berkley db ... > never got too far in there.
using mutt is much more easy than this. You can point it directly to your remote IMAP folders and use the built-in SMTP client to send your mails. To edit the mails, mutt will call your fav editor (vim, emacs, whatever). Done. You can have a more comfortable setup with offlineimap which is a python app that will fetch and keep in sync a local copy of your IMAP folders. The idea with mutt is that you can both use it in a minimal way with a lot of built-in features, or as part of your own work-flow, pretty much in the unix philosophy, hence using it only for reading the mails and have other software to handle other parts of the process. It can also be configured extensively with macro, etc. Been using mutt for years, could not find anything better. That said, there is something on my TODO that has been lying around for a while, http://sup.rubyforge.org/ I want to try this one at some point, it could be a mutt-killer (if any existing mutt user on this list tries it, please let us know!). > It made me wonder why does puredyne > doesn't have a solid consol client for the email ? I think it could be > great to have mutt there by default (whit all the backend stuff)? Or > at least some better solution than evolution that doesn't really make > any sense to me. Well ... the problem with a mail client is that there are too many choices and it is tricky to suggest a default one. For newbies I would recommend thunderbird because it seems to be quite simple, unfortunately it is getting very bloated as the rest of the mozilla. FOr lighter setup or more advanced users, Claws mail (formely known as sylpheed-claws) is a good choice. Maybe that's the one that should be shipped with Puredyne next to mutt as it will run better on modest setups...? a. -- http://su.kuri.mu --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
