* Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> [11-03-19 07:58]: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 12:31:29PM -0400, Patrice Levesque wrote: > > > > > […] virtually all of the people who use mutt either as their only > > > email client or along with others, chose mutt because of its > > > simplicity. > > > > People who want a simple text mail client will use Alpine or similar. > > Mutt's possibly the most “complicated” text MUA. > > > > I don't use mutt because of its “simplicity”, I use it because of its > > power and flexibility. > > Yes. There is simple and then there is simple. I choose Mutt because > I can adjust it to be simple in the ways I want it to be simple, and > sophisticated in the ways I want it to be sophisticated. That exacts > a cost in configuration complexity which I'm quite willing to pay.
[...] > What it boils down to is that Mutt is a tool rather than an appliance, > and I prefer tools. An appliance does the work for me, the same way > it does it for everyone else; a tool enhances my ability to do the work > using my skills and expressing my intent. thankyou. you have expressed most elegantly my feelings and adjustments to utilize mutt to read and send email over the last +20 years and I hope another 20 or so. and we are neighbors and I used to photograph for IUPUI men's soccer. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode
