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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:49:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: which mutt??
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aah thanks!
installing mutt-devel now

Erik Trulsson wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:31:12PM -0500, Chris Petrovitch wrote:
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>>Hey, sorry about hte newbie question.
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>>I want to install mutt but what is the difference between them?
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>>mutt
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>This is a stable but somewhat oldish release of mutt.
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>>mutt-devel
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>This is a development version of mutt.  Is newer and has more features than
>plain mail/mutt, but has possibly more bugs too.
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>>mutt-lite
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>This is the same program as mail/mutt but with several optional features
>turned off.
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>>mutt-ng
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>This is a branch of mutt, that tries to incorporate various patches that are
>floating around.  What I wrote above about mail/mutt-devel applies here too,
>only more so.
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>>mutt_vc_query
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>Seems to be some utility for mutt to handle vCard stuff; not mutt itself.
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>Personally I use mail/mutt-devel and am quite happy with it.
>At this point in time mail/mutt-ng feels a bit too experimental for my taste
>while mail/mutt is a bit too old and lacks some features I like.
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