Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:35:48 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good Mail Programs Message-ID: <a05100314b815d314fb42@[194.78.144.27]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011112073201.24978A-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011112073201.24978A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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At 7:37 AM -0500 11/12/01, Robert Watson wrote:
> I've never found the fact that gpg had a remotely exploitable buffer
> overflow, nor its various signature verification bugs, very reassuring.
> Perhaps things have improved since I last used it :-).
Bugs in GPG are not the fault of mutt. ;-)
> I think you have this backwards;
Hmm. You may be right.
> My real gripes with mutt as an alternative to pine were that (a) it had a
> very inconsistent user interface,
Well, it's called "mutt" for a reason. It's a mongrel
cross-breed of elm, pine, and presumably mh and all those other
text-mode MUAs. This has both advantages and disadvantages. One
advantage is that it is extremely highly configurable -- there are
key mappings that allow you to retain virtually all the same
keystrokes that you've already memorized with pine, elm, and
presumably virtually all the other text-mode MUAs available -- Just
pick your key-binding and go.
> and (b) its configuration system sucks,
> especially to make simple changes ("My mail is in IMAP today"). If those
> have been resolved, I should give it yet another try sometime.
I've never had any configuration problems with mutt, but then
I had gotten extremely comfortable with it many years ago. Then I
lost my desktop Unix box (I left that job), and in all the jobs I've
had since then I've managed to have my mail available to me on my Mac
(now my PowerBook G3/Pismo). Anyway, now that I'm trying to get
moved over to MacOS X 10.1, maybe I can finally go back to mutt after
all these years.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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