5/8 I was thinking about switching from Mail.app to a different mail
client and a couple of people told me to try mutt. Does anyone
here use it? Can it handle multiple servers (I have a pop3 account
and an imap account and want to keep the mail separate)? I was
looking through the HOWTOs and I couldn't figure this out. tia.
\_ I use it for my soda mail. When I first switched, the keymapping
confused the hell out of me, but now I'm much happier than before.
And I can use emacs to write my emails. So much more useful than
any default editor.
\_ It's of course not emacs, but you can get all Cocoa programs
to support the basic emacs editing commands (M-f, etc.), which
is often good enough for me:
http://www.object.com/TechNotes/DefaultKeyBinding.html
Google "DefaultKeyBinding" for more.
\_ offlineIMAP may help: http://quux.org/devel/offlineimap. -tom
\_ As a former mutt user (who is quite fond of mutt for what it is),
and current Mail.app user, I consider mutt a step backwards.
Primarily because mutt doesn't elegantly support multiple windows
so you can view several messages at the same time, view a mailbox
and compose a message at the same time, etc. -dans
\_ Yes and no. You have to use separate rc files and override the
default ~/.muttrc choice using the -F option because the server
settings are global. Run a separate mutt instance for each...
I like the opposite behavior and use fetchmail to merge all my
accounts and then use msmtp as my sending agent to allow me
to send as 4 different From addresses w/ the proper authenticated
SMTP relay for each account. |