> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:34:47 +0000 (UTC) > From: Rene <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VM] Are there plans to release 8.2? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > John Stoffel <john@...> writes: > >> Personally, I've been thinking that it's time to finally drop VM and >> move to some other mail reader with good IMAP support, probably mutt. >> But the hassle of either A) learning new key bindings or B) changing >> mutt to have all the emacs/vm bindings has been holding me back. > > Has anybody considered switching to mu4e? > > http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html > > How soft/hard is the transition from vm?
I looked into this briefly. I found this, like mutt, to be very cumbersome with a framework where you have a large number of IMAP folders. The problem is that when you operate on IMAP folders (e.g., you decide you need to see/subscribe one that you haven't been subscribed to), it's a very cumbersome process. You need to close your MUA and then start hacking offlineimap or fetchmail config files. This feels very clunky compared to a modern program that interactively manages folder subscription/unsubscription/move/etc. At least to me "folder management" doesn't seem like a task that should be outside the coverage of the MUA and in the land of UNIX config scripts and editors. Cheers, r
