I suppose my main reason for using mutt is that it runs on Linux and
(my version of) it can handle Unicode. I think the only other options
for a Unicode MUA on Linux are Mozilla and a suitably patched
bleeding-edge Emacs. (On Windows there's Outlook, of course, which
apparently handles charsets rather well.)
Having switched to mutt from rmail in Emacs there are some other
things I now appreciate, such as its speed, threads, MIME-handling,
and PGP. You could probably get those things in Emacs, apart from the
speed. I still use Emacs as my editor with mutt. Perhaps I should make
jed do Unicode so I have an alternative ...
Edmund
