On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:27:50AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Although I'm a recent convert to mutt, let me blow the horn for Claws (aka sylpheed-claws-gtk2 on sarge).
> Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format,
Claws is only good with MH folders and IMAP, but it can import mbox.
Supposedly it can do Maildir with a plugin, but I installed the plugin and
didn't see any difference.
Claws doesn't do HTML, period (which may be part of the reason for its
snappiness, because i doesn't have to load a bloated HTML rendering engine).
> The guis, in my experience, save in their own format (If you let them?
> Configurable?),
I'm not aware of any GUI MUAs that save in a non-standard format, except of
course meta-information. Not that I'm aware of too many.
> My text (English) is ASCII.
Mine (usually) is UTF-8, and that's it.
> For me, it's:
>
> ISP --> fetchmail --> {exim,procmail+bogofilter} --> mutt --> exim --> ISP
Exactly the same here. It's funny--before I came to mutt I let Claws handle
the MTA parts of that chain, and I always hated half the app freezing up
during mail fetching and sending (to be fair, Claws does a pretty good job
of backgrounding some of those tasks). But for the rare occasions when I
still use Claws now I've gotten rid of all that and only let Claws access my
Mail tree and the local SMTP server, and by golly, it is FAST.
> Mutt does its job well. It does expect you to pet it regularly in the
> beginning, and from time to time from there on. It's aptly named.
Using mutt is a hobby unto itself. But a satisfying one. My next hobby is
going to be vim, although I'm quite fond of joe.
--D.
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