Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <bscrivener42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 4, 4:20 pm, "Dotan Cohen" <dotanco...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sure, for plain text OOo and Word are terrible tools. They are not
> meant for that purpose. However, when you need markup such as that for
> print documents, a word processor is a necessity.

A necessity? Only if you don't know LaTeX.

That's true. Though I've never been into kinky.

But I think you see my point. For a text and keyboard person, mutt is
much more efficient. To me using Thunderbird to send email is like
trying to manage text with a word processor.

To pick up on your analogy. Mutt is made for the purpose of managing
and sending plain text emails. If that's what you want to do, then
it's much more efficient and programmable than a gui email program
like Thunderbird.

I see what you are saying. Tell me, in mutt can I have several (5-6)
compose messages open and switch between them and the main window that
I'm copying / pasting from? Also, will mutt remember that when I write
to xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I need the From address to be xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
and when I write to abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I need the From address to
be abc@xxxxxxxxxxxx? Those two features are necessary to my workwflow,
and so far as I understand only GUI mail clients perform the former,
while only Thunderbird (with an extension) can perform the latter.

Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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