[Techtalk] mutt is trying to drive me crazy ...

[jennyw]

On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 20:25, Mary wrote:
> my_hdr From: Mary <linuxchix at puzzling.org>

Your example worked, so I guess I was just using the wrong fields. I was
using the automated script to create .muttrc files and I didn't see this
field described.  These are the lines it implied I needed in .muttrc:

set realname = "Jen Wu"
set from = jennyw at dangerousideas.com
...

Is this just plain wrong?

> Incidently, when yousay you are looking for a good mail client, what is
> your criterion?

I use several mail clients. I guess I'd like a text-based one, and Mutt
seems to be the one that everyone says is great.  My mail is all kept on
IMAP servers, though, and I've heard that IMAP support in PINE is
better, so I might try that instead (also, I used PINE years ago in
college, so it'll be a bit more familiar).

> if you're looking for something different, for example, a mail client
> that looks like Windows clients, a graphical client, or a 'does
> everything itself' client, you might want to investigate other mail
> clients, for example Evolution (if you use GNOME), KMail (if you use
> KDE) or Mozilla's mail client, just to name three.

I also just installed Evolution. Looks like a clone of Microsoft
Outlook! I think this is so great. It should make it easier for Windows
users to transition. I'll probably use it when I'm at home.  There are a
few weird things with it, though:

* It displays all the mail folders in alphabetical order. So Drafts
comes before INBOX, for example.
* Its sort is case sensitive. This can really throw you off if you've
got some folders that begin with lowercase letters and others that begin
with upper-case letters ...
* Evolution seems to read all the mail headers in a folder before
displaying an index. This is okay since I have a fast network
connection, but it'd be a real pain if I were doing this over a modem.
It'd be smarter to find out the total number of messages and just grab
enough headers to fill a screen or two. Or to just have another thread
grabbing messages and feeding them to the viewer.

Anyway, I'm making progress! I'm sending this from Linux instead of
Windows.

Jen