[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Mail Clients

[Jerry Van Brimmer]

On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:37, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:46:41AM -0500, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > Here is the question of the week:
> >
> > 	What is your favorite Open Source e-mail client and why?
>
> Well, someone has got to speak up for the CLI crowd...lets hear it for
> Mutt!!!  Yeah!  Mutt is all the client you need for email.  Just look at
> the X-Message-Flag header in all my mail.  :-)
>
> Seriously, when email is done correctly (NO HTML!) then you don't need a
> GUI client.  E-mail is meant to be text based so why do you need
> graphics?  That is what 'xv' or 'ee' or <insert favorite image viewer>
> is for.  When setup with your ~/.mailcap file mutt can pop open a video,
> sound, or picture attachment with whichever program you would like.

While I agree with you, there's just something I like about seeing all of my 
mailboxes on the left and seeing which ones have unread mail in them, all 
with one glance. If it weren't for that, I'd be with you all the way!

>
> Brian

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