> Mutt might not *any longer* be able to garner that kind of support. > The number of people I know who use Mutt today has become A LOT > smaller than the number of people I know who previously used Mutt. > It's a small project which fills a particular niche that is becoming > less and less interesting, based on my conversations with many of the > people I know who use or have used Mutt. Specifically: > > For a lot of people, its lack of modern features provided by the likes > of gmail, Evolution, Thunderbird, etc. has come to outweigh the > benefits of having a curses-based client with a small footprint. > There clearly are some die-hard users who don't feel that way, but in > my experience even many of those have spent a significant amount of > time investigating whether something else would meet their needs > better. Myself included. And for what it's worth, for me at least, > it mostly boils down to a tie of tradeoffs, where sticking with the > thing I already know breaks the tie. Some of the existing projects > are pretty close to convincing me to move away from Mutt, though. And > if there ever was a decent client that could work in BOTH curses mode > AND GUI mode, I would switch in a heartbeat.
I'm afraid you expressed my doubts very well. > Indeed. And up to this point, the maintainers have more or less > indicated an unwillingness to go down that path. Which in my mind > puts Mutt basically in maintenance mode; i.e. development is dead. Which in turn doesn't mean, the tickets shouldn't be resolved. But quite the opposite. Regards -- Jan Pacner
