Hallo, Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:26:54 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Better use Mutt, it sucks less. > > In all seriousness, all the non elm/mutt apps I've used dont let me go > though my mail quickly enough. The ability to switch inboxes, delete big > swathes of threads I dont care about and save sutff I do it vital to me.
And Mutt was obviously written without eye-candy in mind, just functionality. And it was created at a time, when even GUI mail clients were approaching usefulness, so it didn't *have* to be Just Another Console Mail Client, it wanted to be one. Instructive side story: I once installed Linux on a CPU-challenged machine (486/133Mhz) for a friend and teached her to use Mutt. Later she bought a faster PC, I upgraded everything to KDE and so on and then suggested to install a "real" email client with a GUI. She vehemently forbid that I did this with: "Don't take away my mail program, I'm really used to it now and know all keyboard shortcuts." I never expected this. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
