[wplug] Linux on the Desktop

Mike Procario lists at procario.org
Thu Apr 17 14:19:49 EDT 2003


I have found that mutt and kmail are compatible. I have not gotten html 
handling properly configured in mutt yet, so I will sometimes use kmail to 
read those small lnumber of html emails that I think I need to read.

I use fetchmail to get my mail and procmail to filter it. 

Mike  

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:24:02PM -0400, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
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> On Monday 28 April 2003 10:42, John Harrold wrote:
> > Sometime in April Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and
> > produced:
> >
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> > | On Monday 28 April 2003 10:15, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> > | > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:02:02AM -0400, Jason Sopko wrote:
> > | > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
> > | > >
> > | > > When I see mutt, I assume that the sender is using a shell account on
> > | > > a remote server, which doesn't tell much about the desktop OS he's
> > | > > using.
> > | >
> > | > What?  Why would they do that?  After all, what other mail program
> > | > would a person *want* to use on their desktop Unix box? :)  (Surely
> > | > you're not suggesting a person would pollute their Unix box with some
> > | > horrid graphical MUA...)
> > |
> > | Okay, I'll bite! :-)
> > | http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/linux/images/kmail_attach.png
> > |
> > | Beautiful, fast, reliable, easy to use, with most (all?) features of Mutt
> > | by now.
> >
> > hey alex,
> >
> > while it looks nice, it would be hard for me to run it over a modem
> > connection while visiting my family.
> 
> true - it *is* full of GUI fluff after all :-)
> 
> > i honestly don't know many of the
> > features that kmail has, but to say it most  most (all?) of mutts features
> > is quite a statement:
> >
> > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html
> > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html
> 
> Let me take a more conservative stand on this: KMail has most/all of Mutt's 
> features that make sense to a humanoid. Considering that 99% of Internet 
> users don't even bother setting up encryption, I'd say it's safe to assume 
> that Mutt's advanced features are for an even smaller portion of the 
> population. But yes, Mutt does have more features, and there *is* one major 
> thing that is still broken in KMail (IMAP folder filtering).
> 
> > i guess the most important question is can i set kmail up so that vim is my
> > default editor :).
> 
> Well, it does have an "use external editor instead of composer" feature, but I 
> couldn't get it to behave in the 10' I devoted. But as you made clear, your 
> needs are different anyway.
> 
> I'm basically promoting KMail as the best GUI MUA for users that are 
> converting from M$ - Mutt is still the best for hardcore situations :-)
> 
> -A
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