T-bird replaced Evolution for me after I couldn't stand that any more, and it was certainly a step up, but its never been more than tolerable. It liked to freeze for 15 seconds while it was busy, and it never quite did threading the way I wanted. Message formatting could be a pain too, which was often embarrassing, and lead to my ultimately being coaxed into giving mutt another look. So, for the past 5 hours, I've been a mutt user.
It's pretty ok.
I like getting rid of the mouse, as always, but there's still some things in the UI I'm missing:
- The list of folders I get with
c?doesn't show me which ones have new messages. - Changing folders is agonizingly slow, even with a local header cache. I probably don't need a 140,000-message archive of lkml for the past few months, but why can't I have it?
- No Thunderbird means no Lightning, so now I need calendar software. Not really mutt's fault, but something to consider. I'll also need a new RSS feed reader.
Its definitely lighter and faster, and email in vim is a huge win, but its going to take some time before it really flows for me.
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I've been a long time Thunderbird user for reasons I don't entirely understand.
Priceless! :)
The list of folders I get with c? doesn't show me which ones have new messages.
There was definitely a setting to format the folder list view to your liking. Unfortunately I don't remember it and quick Google search gives me something else. But I know for sure, because I remember setting it up.
Changing folders is agonizingly slow, even with a local header cache. I probably don't need a 140,000-message archive of lkml for the past few months, but why can't I have it?
I guess you are using a remote mailbox via IMAP or something like this, right? One of the ways to work around it is to download all emails locally. Not as convenient if you use multiple machines, but, on the other hand, gives you more power with fetchmail, procmail, bash/perl scripts, etc.
No Thunderbird means no Lightning, so now I need calendar software. Not really mutt's fault, but something to consider. I'll also need a new RSS feed reader.
Since you are using Vim as your editor, you can use some of its plugins. There was something for the calendar for sure.
Then assign mutt keyboard shortcuts to external commands (which might include Vim with plugins).
'y' to get a list of folders -- specially marked with 'N' for those with new messages in them.
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