> > > http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7564
> > >
> > > PostgreSQL gets it again. Firefox also gets one. Am just not sure about
> > > Mutt getting one! (But then I've never used it, so those who have might
> > > comment.) -----------------------------


Mutt rocks. After using Pine for some years, I played with mutt for sometime and 
havent looked back since.

> > i have been trying to switch from pine to mutt. partly due to time, i have
> > not seen how easily mutt accomodates the following:
> >
> > - does mutt have an address book?
> mutt does not have an address book, but several options exist that can do the 
> job. You can check out abook (http://abook.sourceforge.net/).

Mutt has the alias command which allows you to give email addresses aliases e.g 
johndoe-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 
> mutt features an external query feature that can allow you to pull email 
> addresses from a wide variety of sources. There is a good set of tools 
> (http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/) that does this. lbdb can do searches through 
> your pine,evolution, and _even_ abook addressbooks!
> 
> > - is it easy to set default behaviour? (am sure its a config
> >   file somewhere.


Yes.There are system wide configuration tools as well as user specific tools.
Mutt allows you to play with files of different formats e.g I open my word documents, 
browse through tarballs in mutt. neat:). just call the program that should perform 
that function and you are good to go.

> > - my distro comes with the .muttrc file in the /etc folder, instead
> >   of the /home folder. anyways, this is easy to solve, but wonder
> >   why this was SuSe's choice.
That is the system wide configuration.

> > - i have not seen yet how easily folders are created
> > - it seems it automatically transfers read mail to some other folder
> >   other than the dafault mail folder
This depends on your configuration in .muttrc. You can choose to leave the mail in 
/var/mail
or move them to ~/Mail

> > - not sure wether it's tailored for maildir or mbox yet ..
> see http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/mutt.html for a lot of tips on using mutt, some 
> of which I have already talked about
> 
> - Martin -
> 

Kenneth
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