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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> 
> These days I have played with console e-mail client Mutt.
> This is a very interesting piece of software.


Mutt is great, but I can think of two things which make it less
suitable for BL: 

1) it is not very intuitive to use (I think it is like vi in this
respect - very powerful, but takes some learning)

2) it does not talk to a remote smtp server, so requires a mail server
such as sendmail to be running

If you want to replace the BL mail system, I'd reccommend pine (from
slackware) - which does online POP3, sending to a smtp server, and is
also a news reader.

However, Steven has done a lot of work to get a minimal mail system
working for BL. I am sure he looked at common clients like mutt and
pine, but chose pmail, etc because they were smaller and had all the
features he wanted.