Searching for a new email client...Mutt? (longish)
Hi,
this is my first posting to this mailinglist. I am longtime user of
Emacs and the email client for Emacs called "mew" (www.mew.org).
Recently I changed to vim and dont want to let Emacs be installed
only for the task of reading mails. This is somewhow like haveing an
airplane for to go shopping.
I read about the possibility to call vim from inside mutt (true?) so
may be mutt is what I wanted as next Email client.
Unfortunately I dont know all the terminus technicus for too many
important things concerning Emails and Email clients and I am no
native English speaker. Therefore I think it is better to ask you
instead of non-context-aware-non-intelligent search engines and grep
commands...;)
One thing I dont want to change since I have archived so many Emails
this way is, is how Mew handles Emails:
It works as follows:
(Receiving Mail) Fetchmail is getting the new mail via POP3 and feet
it into Exim on my system. Then Mew is reading
/var/spool/mail/mccramer and put each Email as a separate file under
$HOME/Mail/<folder>. Regular expressions which match for example
against the To:, CC:, Subject:, From: field The whole header is
available for matching) decide, which <folder> is used to store the
file/mail. In each <folder> the mails are numbered onsecutively.
(Sending Mail)
I am writing the mail and press "send". Mail is delivered directly to
the receiver or -- if the target address matches against a list of
exceptions-- the mail is delivered via the mailserver of my ISP.
Is it possible to mimic this handling via mutt (may be with the help
of other programs) ?
Is it possible to use mutt side by side with Mew for a while without
screwing up the whole thing, without the hassle of
reinserting/renumbering/patching mails and without loosing them ?
Thank you so much for any help in advance and thank you for your
understanding !
Kind regards,
mcc