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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> > 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

What did you do to mutt so that it does work with BL?  I have been using 
it to send all my outgoing mails with attachments.  Works fine with smtp.
Do we already have a sendmail here?

> 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.

Mutt has the features missing from pmail that I wanted, thanks greatly. 
Perhaps in the next version you could include the screentop menu which is 
missing from the current mutt package.  (y for send, m for mail....)

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