>>>>> "Biju" == Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Biju> IIRC, you used to use mutt. How does VM compare? Any
Biju> specific reason for shifting?
Main reason - I couldn't get mutt 1.3.* to compile on FreeBSD (work
platform ;-) when I joined here - problems with iconv, among other
things (nothing a simple download/compile couldn't solve, mind you).
Second reason - I always have an emacs session running (again, work
related - remote editing and stuff). So I decided to shift to an emacs
based mail client, instead of setting editor in mutt.
How do they compare? They both have similar features. VM hangs on me
occassionally, when it tries to render HTML email. But I think that is
a problem with w3 (what VM uses for HTML mail). All this is on GNU
Emacs - Raju can tell us how VM fares on XEmacs.
I'd say tighter interaction with the rest of emacs is the primary
advantage of VM - supercite, bbdb/lbdb, dictionary, ange-ftp, gud etc.
Otherwise, there is not much difference. Anyone used to emacs will
find VM very intuitive. Mutt's default is more vi like. Even the
display looks similar, if you have pager_index_lines set in mutt.
VM can have multiple POP accounts - mutt can have only one, I
believe. But with fetchmail, who needs this feature in an MUA?
Binand
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