otah...@gmx.ca wrote: > First of all, thanks to all of you guys on this mailing list. I am > learning a lot. > I hope you will excuse my many questions. > > I was happy to find out, from Ken's last email, that there is yet > another front-end for nmh whose existence I did not know of: MH-V by > Steve Rader. I have just downloaded it. > > This new discovery raises the question: how many front-ends are there? > > The ones I came across so far (though I have not ried them yet) are: > 1) xmh (obsolete, I assume) > 2) MH-E > 3) exmh > 4) MH-V > > Any other? > Could you please give a brief assesment of each, based on your experience? > Which one would be the best bet for a newbie? > (I gather that most people nowadays use either MH-E or exmh.) > > Please share your views. Every bit of info will help, as I also have to > decide whether to (partially) use Claws Mail or to go nmh/mailutils all > the way, with the help of a front-end.
i think that at some point, you're just going to have to bite the bullet and choose one to live with for a while. and if that one doesn't work out, choose another. but i applaud your attempt at short-circuiting the process! my 2 cents: personally i have no real problem with dealing with individual messages from the command line -- i have one- or two-letter wrappers for the most common cases ('d' for deletion, 'p' for show, 'P' for "show -noshowproc", 'r' for reply, 'f' for forw, etc). some, like 'p', do nothing extra. others, like 'd', do slightly more -- i archive deleted mail from some folders, and prevent deletion entirely from others. 'r' will adjust my From: header and .sig lines depending on what folder i'm in. but the biggest issue for me with "stock" mh is dealing with reading or skimming large volumes of incoming mail from mailing lists, most of which i'll delete right after viewing. the solution i use most often is a script that takes the unseen sequence, sorts it into thread order, then runs all the messages through "less" with enough blank lines between them that i can't see two at once. with the search string pre-loaded with "^Message", i can hit 'n' repeatedly to see the headers and first page of text of each message. when finished, the script re-marks all the messages as unseen. do after dealing with whichever messages need replying or forwarding (usually none), i simply "d unseen". oh -- my script also colorizes the Subject: and From: headers, so they're easy to find quickly while scanning. my other foray into wrapper-land is an extension of the above, called "ml". it's nowhere nearly as sophisticated as the other front-ends you're looking at, but i sometimes find it useful. (you'll find it in the nmh docs/contrib directory.) it's useful when i'm less likely to want to discard most of the messages after skimming -- it allows for inline replying or forwarding, marking as spam, deletion, etc. of course it uses native nmh to accomplish all this, so there are no locking or corruption issues to deal with. paul ---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 24.1 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers