On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:24:31PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
I'm not suggesting Mutt should be just like Outlook or Firefox--it serves a different niche (but it is indeed a niche). However I do think that it's hard to argue convincingly that Mutt users would not universally benefit if it handled more of the esoteric details for them (at least by default, still allowing advanced users to do what they want). For some of that, closer integration of the pieces is going to be required, practically speaking.
I'm not one of the developers of Mutt, nor am I some representative of all of Mutt's users. However, it seems to me that the devs and at least most of the users like things as they are, such that you need to know a good bit about email to use Mutt. Otherwise they would be developing changes[1] or switching to another email client.
That being the case, I don't know that passionate rants on the mailing list are going to do much good. The people on this list have self-selected to be users of a email tool that requires you to know a bit about email internals to use it, and have further self-selected to join a list to converse and swap tips about that editor with other like-minded people. Making things easier for non-geeks, when non-geeks are not likely to want to use mutt for many other reasons other than difficulties writing flowed or HTML text, doesn't seem to be a priority.
[1] Quick googling finds this message suggesting a feature freeze for 1.6: http://markmail.org/message/pdqwhg277u7lwzer Note that we recently passed the 8th anniversary.
-- Ed Blackman
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