Hi Aaron, On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 03:20:29PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:12:22PM +0000, John Long wrote: > > Mutt is a great app! It doesn't suck at all. > > Hmmm. I'm going to disagree a bit. I think Mutt is a fine MUA, and I use it > for all of my personal and professional mail, but it definitely has some > baggage that sucks.
Well, than maybe I have to disagree with you ;) > - IMAP support causes segfaults with 1.5.21. Regularly. > - Local commands, such as 'c' to change mailboxes, can take ages, even > though all the mailboxes are cached. > - All around, it's slow. Even with caching. Okay, these are things I can't how to change them right now and here. > - Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts. First it's 'i' that exits, then 'y' > then 'q', and so on. But this is easy to patch - spot the problems and make a patch. There might be many that will honour this. > - No sidebar support (outside of an unofficial patch) for viewing your > mailbox tree. I would consider this an optional thingy, that some (like me) would like only very seldom. > - No vertical layout for viewing messages with widescreen monitors.. Well, what do you mean with that? I also noticed that sometimes the fullscreen running mutt looks a bit unusual when you use 80 of your 250 columns. But how would you think could one make it better? > - No ability to change signatures when changing accounts automatically. You can. In fact I am doing it. > - No RSS/Usenet support. RSS - well, I am using this: http://git.ak-online.be/?p=rss2maildir.git;a=summary It reads the RSS feads and places each found item in a specific folder. Usenet - well, it is quite similar to mail. But there should be anywhere something that generates a Maildir of Usenet groups. > There are other things that irk me, but those are probably the heavy > hitters. Despite that, I find Mutt to be a good all-alround MUA, which I > use daily (have for years), but you won't find me saying it doesn't suck. > It certainly has its issues. :) Well, I would say, it is the most sane behaving client out there. I tried too many things that claim the term mail client, but most make your life simply horrible, and without a two year learning phase you can't even get it do do the simplest advanced tasks or simply suck at using long-running threads. So: mutt is simply great. greetings, Andre -- Andre Klärner Telefon: 0351/79666546 Fax: 0351/79688547 Mobil: 0172/9838653
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