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Re: [ot] mutt vs. GUI MUA (was: Re: rewrite reply-to)

From: Jay Maynard (jmaynardconmicro.cx)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 12:02:23 CST


On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:56:59PM -0500, Covington, Chris wrote:
> It's not that CLI is not end-user friendly, mutt isn't.

Wrong. I point new, inexperienced users at it all the time, and they have no
trouble figuring it out.

> Pine is a much more friendly command-line MUA.

Perhaps; it's also much biger, much less efficient, and includes a truly
lousy Usenet reader that should be stamped out.

> And you also have elm which is very similar to mutt.

elm hasn't been in active development for years; its author recommends mutt.