Hi, I've been a casual mutter for around 10 years. I have it working with PGP, S/MIME, all that I need...for one account. The only thing is, I am increasingly dissatisfied with the direction GUI clients are going. I had one I have been using for years and it just keeps getting more and more features, incompatible changes, and bugs. Several of them encrypted my account credentials so I couldn't retrieve them. At one point I downloaded the source for it and put printf statements so I could recover my credentials to use with another client. I like mutt's text config.
I have around 10 email accounts I use actively for various mailing lists, work, personal etc. 1. Is it reasonable to use Mutt with many email accounts? I know you probably can, but is it reasonable as in, is it manageable, is the performance good enough on a midrange box. Usability stuff, like will mutt automagically respond using the correct account (the account the email I'm replying to was received by), is it clear when you compose which account you're using. Etc. 2. I have around 100,000 emails right now between all my accounts. I have one pop account because my ISP mail server doesn't support IMAP. I use IMAP with all the rest. I like having the email on my box(es) rather than leaving it on servers. Of the mailbox flavors, which is appropriate for this volume of email?...and also for the let's say 200 a day I get between the various mailing lists I'm on. 3. I seem to remember that mutt didn't poll automagically for pop3 or IMAP or both. Is that still true? Is there a way to get mutt to check mail every 10 minutes, 15, etc. without middleware? I don't want to get into fetchmail, getmail etc. I want the client to do it all. 4. For the idiots who persist in sending HTML email, even my current GUI client borks, sometimes badly, and the email is unreadable. Is there any tolerable HTML support in Mutt? Thanks, /jl
