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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:14:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Zach Thompson <cublai@lastamericanempire.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: OT: why suggest Mutt? (Was: Favorite Mail App?)
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Zach Thompson wrote:

> * Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> [020322 05:38]:
> > * Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com> [2002-03-22 06.11 -0500]:
> >
> > > I don't get it. Why recommend mutt to someone with "no special requirements"
> > > who just wants to send/recv mail?
> >
> > Brendan asked for "recommendations on a good mail app". I
> > recommended the good mail app Mutt. I don't have any special
> > requirements either, and all I do with Mutt is sending and reading
> > mail.
> >
> > > What need does it fill that the others cant, except require a rocket scientist
> > > a couple of weeks to configure?
> There are also quite a few .muttrc files out there that do most of the
> configuration for you (http://www.mutt.org/links.html#config). I have
> used the Automated WWW .muttrc builder and that seems to work fine.
> However, I usually just modify Sven Guckes' files.
>
>
> For someone who wants a GUI mail reader clearly not the right choice.
> Though a GUI always seemed to me to be a "special requirement" ;^D
I think we made the assumption, that a subscribed member of this
list needs a really fast mail/news client.
And this is mutt (or pine - which I prefer, because the rocket
scientist will only need two days to work it out :-)  )

Regards,

Uli.


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