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?) Message-ID: <20020322190657.L221-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20020322104226.A77765@lastamericanempire.com>
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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. *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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