Re: mutt development status
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:21:48PM +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
> By co-incidence, I was looking at the mutt-ng dev list earlier, and it's
> extremely quiet. Reading a mail from one of the three developers, he's busy,
> another one has no internet access, and the third is doing exams. Doesn't
> look like the situation will change much in the near future.
Agreed. [now some more babbling from a non-developer, just a \wanting\
user]
For the longest time, mutt seemed to be totally stuck. A mighty fine
product, but going nowhere. Then along came mutt-ng. Dev list mail came
alive again. There was talk of \this\ feature and talk of \that\
feature. It really looked like mutt was alive and barking and ready to
put ng down quickly. So, what have we, as users, gotten. Header caching,
while a wonderful feature, and a long time coming, isn't the end. Just
about everything else seems maintenance related.
What about the idea of remembering which mailbox you were on when going
back to mailboxes?
What about being able to search multiple IMAP folders simultaneously,
preferably server-side?
What about NNTP?
What about showing count of unread, as well as new?
These were all talked about. But that's about it.
Please try to make mutt \more\ attractive than some GUI based hogs (who do
some of the above named options). None of these options need to be
defaults, but how about offering them an an \option.
Back to lurk mode,
John
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