[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Mail Clients

[Ruth Marlene Friesen]

Brian Derr wrote:

>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.
>
>Brian
>
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Brian, can you tell me more about how that works? I've seen references 
to this Mutt kind of email, but am not sure how to set up or use it. I 
do prefer plain to HTML emails!