Find me a modern MUA with a UI I can stand for more than twenty minutes.
I have Mutt (under RH and Mandrake), which I use when I get way behind on Elbows or PDML and want to sort/delete by thread. But I hate replying in it. I also use it when I actually need to decode a MIME attachment, which doesn't happen often. And to mail a binary, but that's straight from the comand line: "echo 'one line message' | mutt -x -a filename -s subject recipient", so I don't have to deal with the user interface.
(In addition to not liking the UI -- though I'll say that it's a lot more Glennish than anything I've seen under MacOS or Windows so far -- I've got a configuration problem on my LAN that causes Mutt to complain about locks not working right, so I have to run it on the file server if I want to make any changes to any files; /bin/mail ignores the NFS lock issue, so I can run it on my usual login machine. But part of the reason I haven't tried harder to fix that problem is that I don't like Mutt well enough in the first place.)
What I really need is a modernized version of /bin/mail, with MIME awareness, maybe HTML, and sort-by-thread. Plus a couple of message-status flags. What I don't need is to use a tool that Bugs The Shit Out Of Me every single day I use it. *shrug* Mutt's pretty impressively designed, but it's got a couple of aspects that don't work well for me personally.
Somebody suggested mh a while back. I need to take a look at that.
I'll put in a plug for Pine. In addition to doing a reasonable job of rendering HTML into plain text (plus being able to fire up links/lynx for you if you want to follow a link), it also will work with an IMAP server (and you won't notice _much_ difference than running it on local mailboxes). Plus there's a native Windows port should you need that.
The configuration can sometimes be daunting when searching for a particular feature you know "must be in there somewhere", but overall it isn't bad (can use the built-in config editor, or just edit the .pinerc file). If you want to know more, you can email me at "vicky at steeds dot com".
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I have Mutt (under RH and Mandrake), which I use when I get way behind on Elbows or PDML and want to sort/delete by thread. But I hate replying in it. I also use it when I actually need to decode a MIME attachment, which doesn't happen often. And to mail a binary, but that's straight from the comand line: "echo 'one line message' | mutt -x -a filename -s subject recipient", so I don't have to deal with the user interface.
(In addition to not liking the UI -- though I'll say that it's a lot more Glennish than anything I've seen under MacOS or Windows so far -- I've got a configuration problem on my LAN that causes Mutt to complain about locks not working right, so I have to run it on the file server if I want to make any changes to any files; /bin/mail ignores the NFS lock issue, so I can run it on my usual login machine. But part of the reason I haven't tried harder to fix that problem is that I don't like Mutt well enough in the first place.)
What I really need is a modernized version of /bin/mail, with MIME awareness, maybe HTML, and sort-by-thread. Plus a couple of message-status flags. What I don't need is to use a tool that Bugs The Shit Out Of Me every single day I use it. *shrug* Mutt's pretty impressively designed, but it's got a couple of aspects that don't work well for me personally.
Somebody suggested mh a while back. I need to take a look at that.
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And of course, things can be configured, on build, to deal with different locking situations...
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*waves* :)
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yay mh :)
Re: Mail User Agents
rendering HTML into plain text (plus being able to fire up links/lynx
for you if you want to follow a link), it also will work with an IMAP
server (and you won't notice _much_ difference than running it on local
mailboxes). Plus there's a native Windows port should you need that.
The configuration can sometimes be daunting when searching for a particular feature you know "must be in there somewhere", but overall
it isn't bad (can use the built-in config editor, or just edit the .pinerc file). If you want to know more, you can email me at "vicky at steeds dot com".
- Vicky