On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Will Yardley wrote: > > Simon White wrote: > > > > > > Since it's dynamic, he'll have to be running a web server, etc. A > > > shell or PERL script will guarantee functionality across a wider range > > > of Linux distros and setups. > > > > and other operating systems; mutt runs on a number of systems other than > > linux (ie FreeBSD, commercial UNIX, win32, etc). > > technically not win32 since it's not a native port (cygwin).
Thank you for making this important distinction. IMHO, it shouldn't be necessary to use Cygwin just to use Mutt. The MKS Toolkit, for example, is a pretty nice native-win32 Unix shell environment, but it still ships with mailx.exe, and one would certainly want to replace this with a mutt.exe. Ulf Erikson has done a native-win32 port of Mutt (see http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt, but in my recollection he says on his Web page that the Cygwin approach is more comprehensive, so I didn't get around to trying it. At any rate, I am not aware of win32 binaries -- either in Cygwin or native-win32 -- for other important mutt-related utilities such as procmail or urlview. > contrast to pine which I've read does have a native win32 port... Baochun Li has done a Cygwin port of Pine, see http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~bli/personal.html, but in my experience it only runs in an xterm window, requiring XFree86 or Exceed. However, I am not aware of a native win32 port other than PC-PINE, which is really not quite the same program and uses a proprietary mailbox file format. Tom ---- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Birlinghoven Library, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft mobile +49-171-408-5784 Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619
