Re: mail program for FC6

Steve Searle wrote:

Even if you have a limited bandwidth connection, imap to a local GUI
mailer iso a lot nicer.

In your opionion, not mine.

It is more a matter of functionality than opinion. Much of my email contains non-text parts that mutt wouldn't handle. And I find the ability to drag messages among folders on different accounts on different machines to be much more convenient than whatever method you might use in mutt to accomplish that (I haven't used mutt over imap so I'm not sure it is even possible).

Mutt has everything I want, can be
configured exactly how I want, and does things I have not yet found
available in any other application - GUI or otherwise.

Thunderbird, evolution, kmail, outlook, apple mail, etc. are all pretty feature-complete. Thunderbird has the advantage of running on most common platforms so you can use it from about anywhere accessing the same accounts if you work on different machines and it will look/work about the same. Do you have an example of a mutt-exclusive feature?

I can also run
it via SSH and putty from any Windows machine - I keep putty and my SSH
keu on my phone's memory card.

Running imap over ssl provides the same security, although some places may not have it available everywhere ssh is permitted. You can also port-forward through ssh/putty, but that is a little more cumbersome. But, if you ever send files from your local machine as email attachments through your mutt account you must already be dealing with some inconvenience.

This covers a lot more than email, but another approach to get better access than putty/ssh from a remote machine is with freenx on the fedora side and the NX client locally. This lets you have a complete X desktop remotely that works fairly well even over a low bandwidth connection and where only ssh is permitted to the server.

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