On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:33:20AM -0700, jacob certain wrote: > So, I think I understand what you want: gmail. Yes, it's a web > interface, with limited keyboard commands, but the whole > basket/basement thing is implemented near exactly as you describe. I > think you'd be pretty happy with it, though a specialised version for > your own domain costs a bit more than mutt.
That's interesting; I never tried gmail. An a webinterface isn't what I want, but it means that I really have to try sup. > > Then why is it so fumbly? It's fumbly with local maildirs, but try it > > with IMAP. If you don't enter all the folders you have on the IMAP > > server into the configuration or something, it's horrible. And every > > time you create a new IMAP folder or delete one, you'd have to edit > > the config again ... > > I've never had any problems. And I don't have to predefine every > single folder in a config file, I just tell it what my inbox, draft, > and sent folders are. To change folders: c, =foldername, or tab twice > for a list. Well, I tried it with IMAP, and mutt kept asking me server and password all the time and didn't display any folder list. I had to use a GUI MUA to see what folders there were to access them with mutt, but it was still so fumbly that I ended up using the GUI MUA to move the mail from the IMAP server into my maildirs. Mutt and IMAP is just something that doesn't really work, at least not before you figured out what to put into the config for that. > And, mutt + screen is beautiful. I run several instances of mutt, so > I can quickly access my various common folders with a simple ctl-a > ctl-[np]. ... and then you create a new folder or remove one or want to change an option and have to exit all instances of mutt, edit the configuration, restart all the instances and try to find where you left them because mutt doesn't remember where you left. That's great. I very rarely used several instances, only when I needed to look up a mail while I was writing one. I wished from the beginning that mutt was able to continue to function while I'm writing a mail in an external editor ...
