I think this is a kind of trade off. I personally support the mutt
developers' decision on what to implement.
There are also a lot of people who want to how to use mutt to rotate the
send-mail folder monthly just like pine. And I guess the standard answer
will be using a shell script and run it in crontab.
What you are saying is also right, and pine does have the biggest user
group among all the MUA's. But when it comes to what is the best MUA, I
would say it is definitely mutt. Try open a mail folder with 5000
messages in mutt and pine. You will see the difference and the goal mutt
developers trying to achieve.
Hope you will stay with mutt :)
Frederic L . W . Meunier [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I don't think implementing this would be a bad idea. I
> have to agree that Pine's capabilities to make use of a remote MTA
> let new users (newbies...) choose this MUA and not Mutt, which is very
> complex, don't have a way to configure all the stuff using menus, etc.
> Now you need to choose if you want Mutt being used by people that
> don't want to have an MTA installed or configured (very hard for some
> of us), or let it to the experienced users only. Ocasionally you see
> messages with:
> 1- I can send mail with Pine but it doesn't work with Mutt
> 2- How to use a remote host to send my messages?
>
> I have seen a GUI MUA that let you choose if you want to use the
> sendmail binary directly or a host, but it was in an alpha stage and
> dont't seem to be maintained anymore.
>
> Pine isn't the answer, but there are some good options not present in
> Mutt. BTW, you would need how many lines of code to implement such
> feature?
>
> On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:51:55PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > Raju K V [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > Suppose my machine does not have smtp capabilities? ie it does not have
> > > sendmail or any other MTA, can I use another machine as smtp host? I am
> > > looking for something equivalent to pine's smtp-server option.
> >
> > When you have pine doing this, your machine /does/ have SMTP capabilities
> > and an MTA installed - Pine. Pine speaks SMTP to the remote host you
> > specify to get the message there.
> >
> > Mutt doesn't believe in wasting developers' time and bloating the code base
> > this way. There are plenty of real MTAs out there, get one of them.
>
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