mutt with pgp support?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or gpgp)? I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to compile on my boxes. :( If anyone here has used both mutt and pine, what are the main things mutt offers over pine (besides the license); is there anything which pine does better? thanks, Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNrpemOEzIlbKpewXEQINZgCgu0V2Iyp9KbxCPAlPSuTys45rtQAAoKtz Ztqj1OQWoOPJIPup4vD1efvr =AD1m -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: mutt with pgp support?
Chris Frost wrote: I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to compile on my boxes. :( If anyone here has used both mutt and pine, what are the main things mutt offers over pine (besides the license); Speed, configurability, less memory use, colors, threading... is there anything which pine does better? Ease of set up, has internal editor. -- see shy jo
Re: mutt with pgp support?
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or gpgp)? I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine after hearing how many people use it here, and after a day of fixing problems trying to get it to compile on my boxes. :( If anyone here has used both mutt and pine, what are the main things mutt offers over pine (besides the license); is there anything which pine does better? thanks, Chris Does mutt have a nice built in address book like pine? Does mutt do the IMAP thing like pine? Is mutt able to lookup email addresses from an X.500 directory server via LDAP? Uh, these are legitimate questions, meaning I really don't know the answers. I wasn't trying to be a smarta*s. These features have become really essential for me. I have a Debian machine at work that is my team's mail server to which I connect via pine/IMAP from home, other software development workstations in our lab, and remotely via a laptop when I'm on travel. The IMAP functionality in pine works really great, I love having this central email repository regardless of where I am physically. I wish pine had color and that the license thing could be solved more to Debian's liking. Some would like a glitzier X Windows-based display (though I would argue that the curses style display had a lot of utility). When I used mutt several years ago, I seem to remember that it was rather confusing to configure, whereas pine has a nice built in configuration utility with on-line help. Ultimately, though, one's choice of a mail user agent is pretty subjective, like editors :) Maybe you should just try mutt for a while and see if you like it better.
Re: mutt with pgp support?
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Frost wrote: Does the mutt included with debian (hamm) include support for pgp v5 (or gpgp)? I'm not sure. Certainly does pgp2 and pgp3 (whatever that means). I'm thinking of switching over to mutt from pine I've done that, having used postilion inbetween. I like mutt now I'm used to it, and got a bit pissed off with pine - it was very slow with large mailboxes. If anyone here has used both mutt and pine, what are the main things mutt offers over pine (besides the license); is there anything which pine does better? as already mentioned, pine has it's own internal editor. I've you've got an editor that you'd like to write your emails in though, I think this is a 'feature' of mutt. Does mutt have a nice built in address book like pine? It has a list of aliases, from which you can select the one you want. I've not seen anything more swanky than that though. Does mutt do the IMAP thing like pine? Yes. I've not tried it, but I didn't rate pine's IMAP capabilities so mutt might be better (i.e. quicker). Is mutt able to lookup email addresses from an X.500 directory server via LDAP? You can specify the name of an external program to use to lookup addresses for you. i.e. if you have an external program that can look up addresses from an LDAP server, you're all set. I *really* appreciate the message threading you get in mutt for mailing lists too. That's one of it's greatest advantages for me. When I used mutt several years ago, I seem to remember that it was rather confusing to configure, whereas pine has a nice built in configuration utility with on-line help. It took me an afternoon of reading the docs to find out what all the possible options were, and then sitting down and hacking together my .muttrc file. There are some good example .muttrc files available (linked from the FAQ, I think). -- Graham
Re: mutt with pgp support?
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 12:08:01AM -0800, Stephen A. Witt wrote: Does mutt have a nice built in address book like pine? Does mutt do the Mutt has aliases, which are really easy to grab based on current message, and stuff like that. IMAP thing like pine? Is mutt able to lookup email addresses from an X.500 IMAP exists but is very experimental, I would imagine pine's support for IMAP is alot better. I wish pine had color and that the license thing could be solved more to You can edit in color at least, by using the alternate editor option in pine. An editor like vim will automatically do highlights on email when it reads the headers. Debian's liking. Some would like a glitzier X Windows-based display (though I would argue that the curses style display had a lot of utility). When I used mutt several years ago, I seem to remember that it was rather confusing to configure, whereas pine has a nice built in configuration utility with on-line help. yup, still is. Ultimately, though, one's choice of a mail user agent is pretty subjective, like editors :) Maybe you should just try mutt for a while and see if you like it better. pretty much -- Rafael Kitover [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpS110Tt2Smq.pgp Description: PGP signature
