From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 4:30:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foo31-146.visit.se (foo31-146.visit.se [62.119.31.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442F837B425 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 04:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from martin@localhost) by foo31-146.visit.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2MCTWx00332; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:29:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from martin) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:29:32 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson To: Steve Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: why suggest Mutt? (Was: Favorite Mail App?) Message-ID: <20020322122932.GA172@foo31-146.visit.se> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Karlsson , Steve Brown , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020322111122.PPJL2746.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020322111122.PPJL2746.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-PGP-Keyid: 0x9C924660 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5970 BE22 2C33 4D8F 53FD 7E34 66FF 9332 9C92 4660 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Steve Brown [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? Hey, thanks, I didn't know I was that smart! > I can't speak for Brendan, but most of my users would ask me to install Windows > if I made them use Mutt. Well, isn't Free software about _choice_? If you _make_ your users use app this and app that, instead of letting them choose (within reasonable limits of course), I'm glad I'm not one of them. have a nice day -- Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message