Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> writes: > On 4/6/11, Hank D <hdon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The problem is that mutt sucks, too. >> > True. It can be configured to suck even less, though. But I want a > minimalist alternative that's configured to suck less *at build time*. > >> If the default for a text-based MUA is not to just display text, >> something's awry. >> > IMO, MUA should simply draw a list of messages to it's console, and > simply pipe message contents through mailcap, for opening in another > window, overwriting the message list or (if you're living in another > century than I am) forwarding to a line printer producing a hardcopy. > > Mutt, on the other hand, sports a built in pager. Sucks.
I use no suckless MUA (gnus + mairix) but from those two mairix is more important: any MUA that does not integrate easily fast full text filtering of messages is just unusable with today's tons of mails.
