Hello Steffen,
I gave s-nail a try, and I like it to the point I'm thinking in leaving
mutt, which I've been using since years. I'll mention some issues (and
some criticism) based on this version (s-nail packaged by OpenBSD):
& version
Version v14.8.3
& features
Features: MIME,LOCALES,MULTIBYTE CHARSETS,TERMINAL CHARSET,ICONV,NETWORK,
S/MIME,SSL/TLS,SMTP,POP3,IMAP,NETRC,AGENT,IDNA,IMAP-SEARCH,REGEX,EDITLINE,
HISTORY,SPAMFILTER,DOCSTRINGS,QUOTE-FOLD,HTML-FILTER,COLOUR
1st
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Using NCL, non-ascii characters are printed on screen as you type but
not as wide characters. To reproduce it:
$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
$ nail
& set line-editor-disable
& echo 10€
10€
& unset line-editor-disable
& echo 10€
10
In the further processing the non-ascii characters (the one I echoed
after the 10 is an euro sing) are ignored.
But I guess it'll be more desirable to take advantage of readline (bash)
or editline (obsd ksh) as other command line applications do. Using,
for example, ftp, lftp, bc I'm able to edit the line using vi or emacs
mode. I see editline support included in the features list but when I
disable NCL, line editing capabilities are lost.
2nd
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It took me the whole Sunday to figure out why s-nail ignored my
~/.netrc. And the netrc command showed me some a not very helpful
message:
& netrc
Interpolate what file?
It came out that s-nail doesn't recognize comments (prefixed by #). I'd
assumed they are accepted netrc syntax since fetchmail, lftp, ftp, msmtp
and other network applications I use haven't ever complained about them.
3rd
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What about ~/.mailcap? I know that it's just a Unix thing and not an
internet standard but, do you have wishes Microsoft users will ever use
s-nail? :-)
4th
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No offence but a command line version of Thunderbird is a counter sense.
In my opinion, built in POP, IMAP, SMTP support is too ambitious and not
the unix way, you already have tools like fetchmail or msmtp. Besides,
why to force the whole thing towards the IMAP fashion? I still use mbox
format and download all email to /var/mail/$USER using POP3. I never
use IMAP; by no way I leave my messages on the server more than
necessary (including gmail ones). Today, anyone may consider me a freak
for doing things in this way, but, honestly, why "normal" people should
ever think about using s-nail :-). So, since I store email in *my*
machine, why should it affect the way I organize and archive my messages
how much configured accounts I have or from which one I send or receive?
Another consideration related: at least "at home" my identity is my name
not my address or my s-nail configured account, the "showto" option
should take in care *only* my full name.
I wish you don't take my criticism wrong and my opinion be useful for
you.
My best wishes.
Walter
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