where did u get mutt 1.3.. I am not finding any metion of it on
mutt.org.. Infact it seems that the site hasnt changed some time
either.. Any pointers will be of great help
Thanks
Anand
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:27:07PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
>>>>>> "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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