[NCLUG] MUA

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake William Dan Terry:
> 
> Time for my periodic survey of what others are doing. Just for background,
> I've been in the field for 17 years and have trouble keeping up with
> everything these days. I find myself using the same apps and solutions
> just because I have for so long. But sometimes those don't seem to cut it
> anymore. So that's why you see periodic questions asking who's doing what
> for this or that.
> 
> Today's question: What are people using for MUAs?
> 
> I've been using pine for ~9 (?) years now (elm before that, mail before
> that, except when I had a NeXT slab on my desk too), except for a
> flirtation with netscape until I heard of web bugs. I actually really
> liked the GUI for netscape, but I don't want an MUA that does HTML, or at
> least one where I can't turn off all HTML usage. Netscape lets you turn it
> off for composing/sending, but you're stuck with it on reading (or at
> least were). Plus I wouldn't mind something less bloated than netscape if
> I were to go back to an X app.

 Oh, plus netscape can barf sometimes when replying to a message that is
html'ized. Freaking annoying...

 I'm currently using elm at home and on another ISP account mainly because
I've been using it forever and it's shell. At work I primarily use netscape
mail which is nice because it's easy to make it coexist with elm when I
need to use elm at work (from some wacky slow net connection or the like).

 I'm suffering from your same dilemna though, I'd like to move to a new
MUA for work (gui) but so far mozilla sucks too many eggs to even think
about trying it's mail client. Not real impressed with the likes of kmail
and friends either.

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