On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 01:59:04PM -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
>
> At first, the time required to configure the mail system may seem
> excessive and a wasteful expenditure. But once you are running, it
> should be evident to you that with Mutt you can process messages much
> faster than you can process them with any other mail user agent (MUA),
> so the payback is almost immediate. In terms of user efficiency, the
> only MUA which is competitive to Mutt is Gnus. (I view Gnus as almost
> a religion; it is a marvelous and rewarding system, but it has a steep
> learning curve.)
I tried switching to mutt about 4 years back. I spent about a couple of
days to figure out the details, but failed (I was relatively new to *nix
at the time). I tried it again last year. I got everything working in
3-4 hrs; including indexing with notmuch[1]! I still wish I could have
switched sooner; would have saved me so much time over 3 years.
Footnotes:
[1] My setup is not simple (illustrating RLH's point), but it fits my
needs like a glove: OfflineIMAP + notmuch + mutt-kz + Emacs.
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