Fairlight [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:00:14PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser blurted:
> > There is, ssmtp:
> > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/mta/ssmtp-2.33.tar.gz
>
> Cool...*makes notes for other users down the line*
As we speak I'm redoing http://www.mutt.org/links.html to have a better
topical structure, this will include an expanded (but of course still
incomplete) section of lins to other programs one can use with Mutt to get
a full Un*x mail system set up.
> <snip>
> > It does not exist, because implementing these things in Mutt would require
> > making Mutt a minimalist MTA, and Mutt is not an MTA, it is an MUA. Better
> > to leave this functinality in another (user specified) program.
>
> Erm....two comments, diametrically opposed:
>
> 1) That philosophy is a good one, but implimenting POP3 and IMAP flies in
> the face of it, making Mutt a minimalist MDA, in addition to an MUA.
> Not a complaint, but an observation. Technically, either both should
> be supported minimally, or neither, IMHO.
POP3: Yes, and this is why removing it from Mutt is a perennial(sp) debate.
IMAP: Not quite the same, since even though IMAP is often remote, at the
core it's just another popular mailbox/folder format such as mbox, Maildir,
etc. It's proper for Mutt as a mail reader to support it. The primary
purpose/action is not transferring the mail (indeed, you usually don't
really "download" it), it's reading/browsing/composing it.
> 2) I'm glad at least that the design goals are to keep things trim and to
> the point...I hate bloat like Communicator, et al that want to be
> everything. Relating back to #1, I'd rather see POP/IMAP stripped
> out if it came to a choice, but since it's already there... :)
Well, there is always './configure --disable-pop --disable-imap' (which is
the default, anyway).
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