[techtalk] Progeny Debian

Telsa Gwynne hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Jun 1 09:37:07 EST 2001


On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:23:52AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:26:35PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Michelle Murrain thought:
> > 
> > both of the servers I get my mail on (my home server and work) can do 
> > IMAP. Problem is, Netscape/Mozilla is the only client that does IMAP 
> > on Linux that I can find (others?). 
> 
> MUTT!!!!!

Echoed :) 
 
> mutt is...

Here's some more: supports PGP/GnuPG; does colour for those who want
it; sorts your mail different ways in different folders; reads in
folders -far- faster than elm; you can run multiple instances of it
without getting stupid "you are already running elm, remove lockfile
to continue" rubbish; works with procmail seamlessly; lets you set
up different sigs, reply-tos, whether encrypted or signed on the
basis of sender, regexps in headers, recipient, subject and gods know
what; and once you've set up your options how you like it, you need
never touch them again. In fact, I have to go and look them up when
I want to tweak things because I have been using the same settings
for months on end now. It all just fits my fingers. 

I'm in the keyboard-control camp on mail (and most other things),
although I know there's an equally convinced pointy-clicky camp.
If you want a graphical MUA, I dunno. Does tkrat do IMAP? 
Evolution does, I know that. 

> Telsa has a very nice, well documented .muttrc available which is very
> helpful when getting started.

It would be more helpful if I updated it to mutt 1.2 :) Also, if I
corrected all the "*" matches to ".*" -- which actually works. Ho
hum. I suppose I should go and do that, actually. 

On the original thread: thanks for the Progeny summary. I was all
set to buy it the other day until I had a look at the minimum specs
it would like and the X version it comes with (4.x) and had a look 
at my aging test machine (slow, and requires X3.x with patches). So I
would need a better machine. Debian runs fine on it with some care. 

I am now shopping around and wondering whether to buy the bits to
build a new computer. Trouble is, I already have three, and I feel
sure that should be enough for anyone. Four seems... very consumerist,
or materialistic or something :)

(I know, I know, whatever happened to the days when "Oh my gods. 
Alan has given me a computer and a CD to install from. Now what do 
I do?" :))

Telsa




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