John --
...and then John Saylor said...
% Hi
%
% Don't flame me- if it was up to me I'd never turn on that god forsaken
% OS that continues to increase shareholder wealth.
*grin* Better watch it anyway; this is a rife field :-)
%
% Since I must, I use win2k at work. I've found PC-Pine to be a marginally
I hear TheBAT! is pretty good, BTW.
% acceptable mailer, but I'd love to use mutt. I've found nothing on the
% web about this. My guess is that this is "by design" behavoir.
Well, yes and no; the design is definitely a factor, but it wasn't done
just because people hate windoze (I say "just because" :-)
It boils down to mutt's UNIX-like behavior of expecting other pieces to
be there; all mutt does is read mail, and it sucks less at that than
anything else. The biggest problem people often quote is the lack of
an MTA, since mutt does not talk directly to the MDA on the recipient
machine via SMTP port 25, as I believe PINE does. It doesn't help that
Win doesn't handle subshells gracefully and so things like PGP can be
tricky as well, as I understand it.
%
% Has anyone done anything about porting mutt to the windows world?
There have been a few shots at it, but I don't think anyone has done so
since the 1.x releases. There are a lot of people out there who would
love to have mutt available under Win, but I think it's pretty foregone
that it just won't happen.
Bring in your *NIX laptop instead :-) With mutt's IMAP support, you can
even talk to the MS Exchange server and not have to use LookOut! like the
rest of your coworkers!
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% Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession.
% You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy
% officials have gone by.
% -Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
:-D
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