Re: why isn't mutt threaded (logically)
oh the shame. been responding to messages in private cos i haven't set up my
lists at home yet. sorry mads and charles.... :$ one day the ground will
swallow me up, promise! anyways... here goes:
On 03/04/05 09:42 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Well, applications aren't supposed to "multitask"
but then what is the point of programming languages being able to thread
processes? "lesser" mail clients such as thunderbird can check my mail
without halting all other activities. i think mutt would be vastly improved
if that was a separate process.
> So what you do is run mutt, and have getmail retrieving your
> mail in the background as a separate application
thanks to you and the other posters who suggested this and fetchmail.
however, as Mads pointed out, imap is my protocol of choice. Downloading mail
to the box i am on is an
imperfect solution for a number of reasons. Primary of these is that i like
to access my mail from both home and work, so I prefer to have my mail
exactly as i left it when i migrate from one to the other. I could leave
copies of mail on the server of course, but what happens when i delete
correspondance from the one - it will still appear on the other, non?
Secondly (although not of much importance because i the relatively small
quantities of mail I have to process) this would add to server load if it was
being polled unecessarily by multiple machines. Ok, that's a fairly specious
argument, granted!
Lastly and hopefully more salient, when you tinker with your home
machine as much as I do you absolutely cannot afford to rely on it to be a
permanent home for that important data that you just cannot afford to lose. I've
lost data before through my own careless practices. My fault, I'll admit, but
that's
why I like to keep anything important on something that isn't constantly
getting hammered with experimental upgrades and bone-headed decisions!
Thanks all. I'll stick with mutt cos it's wonderful, but as the mail client
that just sucks less than the others, that's a pretty sucky lack as far as
I'm concerned!
Craig