Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Simon White
> IIRC, it's actually an app, not a cgi... > > here's the homepage, thanks to freshmeat :) > > http://www.blackie.dk/dotfile/ Yep, but on that site I don't see support for mutt... seems to have good procmail support though. However, here :- http://www.dotfiles.com/index.php3?cat_id=12 There

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:16:24PM -0800, Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Guckes wrote: > > > > mutt does not strive to be popular with everyone. after all, all > > those bad mailers were written to *fit* some people - and they > > certainly do! so dont take them away from those

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Dan Boger
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:38:35PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > That's my recollection, but I don't have the URL to give you. You go to > the website, IIRC, click on your app, put in some options, and get a > config file out. Not unlike netliberte, I suppose, but I know that > dotfiles (or dotfile)

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread David T-G
Simon, et al -- ...and then Simon White said... % % On 07-Mar-02 at 12:21, David T-G's inspired musing was thus : % > Not to rain on the parade, particularly since netliberte has been % > mentioned, but isn't there also a dotfiles generator for mutt as well? % % Is dotfiles a generic generator

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Simon White
On 07-Mar-02 at 12:21, David T-G's inspired musing was thus : > Not to rain on the parade, particularly since netliberte has been > mentioned, but isn't there also a dotfiles generator for mutt as well? Is dotfiles a generic generator with templates for different apps? Point me to the URL :-) --

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- ...and then Will Yardley said... % ... % i was thinking about this in the car tonight, and i realized that % (AFAIK) there isn't a simple interactive command line program to help % new users adjust to / configure mutt. % % such a program could easily be written as a shell script or a

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Rob Reid
At 1:15 AM EST on March 7 Will Yardley sent off: > Sven Guckes wrote: > > > > mutt does not strive to be popular with everyone. after all, all > > those bad mailers were written to *fit* some people - and they > > certainly do! so dont take them away from those - they deserve it! > > i think

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Will Yardley
Sven Guckes wrote: > > mutt does not strive to be popular with everyone. after all, all > those bad mailers were written to *fit* some people - and they > certainly do! so dont take them away from those - they deserve it! i think this statement is a bit elitist simply because a tool is pow

Re: Mutt configuration tool, was: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread cruciatuz
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:11:19AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > 1) something like this already exists online, why don't point it as >the first thing from the Mutt web site, and maybe work to improve >that? (sorry, can't find the URL) perhaps you mean: http://mutt.netliberte.org withou

Mutt configuration tool, was: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 22:16:24 at 10:16:24PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > > i was thinking about this in the car tonight, and i realized that > (AFAIK) there isn't a simple interactive command line program to help > new users adjust to / configure mutt. > > such a program could easily be written

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-07 Thread Will Yardley
Michael Maibaum wrote: > > I'd be willing to help with this, assuming it was perl rather than > shell, I can't claim to be a huge expert but this should be fairly > straightforward (famous last words). well my feeling is that it would be better to use perl (even though i'm not myself a great

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Maibaum
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:16:24PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > Sven Guckes wrote: > > > > mutt does not strive to be popular with everyone. after all, all > > those bad mailers were written to *fit* some people - and they > > certainly do! so dont take them away from those - they deserve it! >

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-06 Thread Will Yardley
Sven Guckes wrote: > > mutt does not strive to be popular with everyone. after all, all > those bad mailers were written to *fit* some people - and they > certainly do! so dont take them away from those - they deserve it! i think this statement is a bit elitist simply because a tool is pow

Mutt is not for everyone? (really)

2002-03-06 Thread Michel
Hello Guys! I don't think like you Sven :) - Mutt is for everyone! All is for everyone! Mutt isn't hard, or at less, Mutt isn't very hard :-) If I can read, write, filter, store, and do all what I do with mutt, with another program running under X-window, certaintly I will use this program (I d

Re: mutt is not for everyone

2002-03-05 Thread Sven Guckes
* Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020301 09:20]: > i love mutt, and wouldn't switch for the world, but i > don't think that it's the mail client for everyone. > i'd even be hesitant to recommend it to many of my > (fairly computer-literate as a rule) co-workers. that's fine. dont give mutt to