my two bytes below -- On Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Logan Rathbone wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 08:32:25PM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:29:21PM -0500, Logan Rathbone wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:43PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: > > > > So, since nothing is impossible in mutt, how can I get a unified inbox > > > > for my two accounts? > > > > > > I don't think having a specific feature in Mutt is necessary or > > > desirable to achieve this. You can easily have mail from multiple > > > accounts delivered to your mailspool using getmail or fetchmail. > > > > except that that downloads the mail to your local machine. the "unified > > mailbox" > > concept means that the inboxes from multiple (IMAP) mail accounts are > > presented > > as a single mailbox, without actually merging them into a single mailbox. > > the > > mail remains on the IMAP servers. > > Personally I prefer to use the right tool for the right job. > Thunderbird is a much better IMAP client than Mutt, so why not use > Thunderbird? >
Most other programs (that I have been used to so far) provided all the capabilities that I can get with mutt once I figure out how to configure every bit and bob correctly. Programs such as Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Postbox, Sparrow, etc. do all the email getting, storing, sorting, editing, replying, tagging, etc. >From my point of view, I see an email program doing all that is necessary for >me to work with my email. The reason I like mutt is because of its speed. All the programs I have mentioned above start breaking down in speed, perhaps hampered by the complexity of drawing the user interface, or doing whatever house-keeping they need to do behind the scene. The reason I use IMAP is because I want my mail to be available on a remote server so I don't have to worry about backing it up, so I can access it from anywhere, using any client, if I need to. That said, for the most part, I access my email from my laptop, that is always with me. My email is hosted on Gmail (Google apps) which takes care of spam, storage, tagging, etc. However, I also want a copy of my email on my computer. In my ideal situation, I have an exact copy of all my email on my laptop as it is on Gmail's servers. That way, I can access/read/search my email even if I am not connected to the Internet. So, as far as I am concerned, my email reader is a reader for a local email storage (I guess this was mutt's traditional role) which it downloads from my IMAP server (mutt's new role). When I send my mail out, my mail reader bot keeps a copy of the outgoing mail, as well as ensure a copy lands up on the remote server. There is a lot about mutt that I (right now) find to be a pain in the butt. I can't jump to web links in the text easily (alpine does a really nice job of this), mairix is still not working for me, integration with the rest of the Mac OS X system is spotty, out-going email addresses are not automatically collected as aliases, etc. I am sure I will figure it out as long as I keep at it. I am already a lot better at mutt than I was when I started a month of so ago in earnest. But I do miss a bunch of features in other mail clients. I want the technology to assist me, not get in my way. The GUI programs get in my way by being slow even while they assist me by ensuring that most basic tasks are already configured for me. mutt gets in my way by making me configure every tiny aspect of it, but assists me by being really fast. I am not yet sure of which way my cookie crumbles. > ..
