On 4/6/11, Hank D <hdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that mutt sucks, too. > True. It can be configured to suck even less, though. But I want a minimalist alternative that's configured to suck less *at build time*.
> If the default for a text-based MUA is not to just display text, > something's awry. > IMO, MUA should simply draw a list of messages to it's console, and simply pipe message contents through mailcap, for opening in another window, overwriting the message list or (if you're living in another century than I am) forwarding to a line printer producing a hardcopy. Mutt, on the other hand, sports a built in pager. Sucks. > Not to mention the very outdated model of email it uses and the lack > of support for multiple email accounts. > I thought that to be mostly a MTA problem. Note, though, that mutt supports multiple 'mailboxes' (switching between them is usually bound to 'c'). Really, how many MUAs out there let WMs control their windows? Claws?
