Re: New user setup questions
René Clerc wrote:
* George <d1945@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [23-07-2004 12:23]:
[mutt and POP]
Don't know about Cygwin, but in "normal" Linux, this may bring you more
benefits than using Mutt's internal POP support..
Noted. I'll take your hint and put aside mutt's POP capabilities. Seemed
limited, but a sweet feature nevertheless. IIRC, a separate executable was
being called to perform it.
Probably. I always compile mutt from source, because of the numerous
patches I use with it. When doing so, I don't enable POP, because I
don't need it. I use getmail in stead of fetchmail, but both will do
exactly what you need. You'll have it up and running in no time.
Getmail?!!! Alors, je crois il y a trop de choix!
3. What took me so long to try mutt?
I have no idea.
So asking why everyone *isn't* using mutt isn't useful?
:)
I try to persuade everyone to use mutt, but for many corporate users
it's not an option. I even don't mind if they don't use mutt, as long
as they use a non-broken, standard-respecting mailer. And of course,
send their e-mails in an orderly fashion (i.e. no top-posting, correct
quoting, etc. etc. etc.)
The triumph of optimism over experience? Orderly is a usenet .comp group
where the majority of posts are made using emacs. Email is mostly an
eyesore of top-posting, bad or absent quoting, attachment issues and bad
html. I think it's perfectly fair to blame Microsoft for all of it, but
that is a never-ending discussion better left for elsewhere.
I think a editorial comment is warranted here. Of all mailing lists
I've subscribed to over the years, yours is probably the first email
I've received without formatting issues. I figured the Outlook ->
Thunderbird migration would have helped, but I still find myself
wondering how badly my client will interpret (or muck up) the
formatting and wishing everyone would forget this *email thing* and
adopt a saner usenet approach. Maybe there's hope with mutt.
Mutt will make it very hard to break conventions, but it's still
possible to send badly formatted mail. That's an editor issue, by the
way. I hope that, sooner or later, more people will send correctly
formatted e-mail. Don't know how soon or late, unfortunately ;-)
Thanks very much for the reply. Back to the man pages.
Good luck. If you need some help, I'm willing to provide it!
(hint: get a last name!)
Davidovich. My dad gave it to me despite my mother's reservations. Thanks
again for the help.
Bye,
Ciao.