On Friday 29 April 2005 13:39, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > ... but ... *mutt* does PGP! ... or has everyone given up on "secure > > > eMail?" > > > > I'm not speaking for Declan here, just myself. > > > > I did give Mutt a go, but objected to learning yet another set of > > keystrokes. I have heard nothing but good things about it, however, > > approaching the twilight of my life, I'd rather spend what learning > > ability (and time) I have left on other things. > > > > Also, in my opinion, the keystrokes are alarmingly akin to those of > > emacs, and I'm a vi man. > > I second the above. > > There is another issue. Mutt is hugely capable but complicated, and > imho not user friendly. All the help is in a huge tome of a manual, > and you can lose days trying to soak in some sense. If I had to do > that learning, I'd rather learn Polish, Russian, or Romanian. We (The > JWs) have a need for bilingual qualified people here. Is there some > law against things being user-friendly?
I found Mutt pretty easy to use, but then I didn't try reading the manual. I just used Google, used a good muttrc I found online which colorized everything nicely, and everything was then self-explanatory -- an infobar at the top of the screen says what keys to hit to do everything common, so I just look and punch the right key. Viewing html emails isn't as easy but that's not really a loss. In fact, I normally use kmail but I'm leaning towards adopting mutt fulltime because the colorizing of different kinds of email is so nice. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
