mutt

Chris Peterson capeterson at visi.com
Sat Feb 2 18:43:41 EST 2002


Buddy,

Could you send me that .muttrc?

Thanks!
Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros at ycardz.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: mutt


> OK, let's see...
> 
> PINE is not GPL, far as I can see. Basically you get source, but you
> don't really have the permission to distribute modified versions.
> 
> Last I saw (as of 2000, last I looked); elm was at version 2.5PL3--it
> may be further than that. Debian last distributed version 2.4PL25, but
> I believe Slackware had a version 2.5-something as of 7.1. 
> 
> Oh, check that out. According to freshmeat, the latest version of elm
> is elm 2.5.6. So I guess it isn't as dead as all that after all. 
> 
> Here's what Freshmeat says about where to get it:
> 
> Homepage:
>    http://www.instinct.org/elm/
>    Tar/GZ:
>    ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/elm/elm2.5.6.tar.gz
>    Changelog:
>    http://instinct.org/elm/files/untarred/elm2.5.6/Changes
>    Mailing list archive:
>    http://mailhost.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/warc/elm-users.html
>    Mirror site:
>    http://instinct.org/elm/files/
> 
> BTW, I am a happy user of mutt, previously a user of elm, never
> thought pine was very intuitive and just didn't like it. Could be
> mostly because I'd been using elm since the beginning of time (or at
> least, 1992, anyway). I have a spiffy .muttrc (thanks, Raul!) that
> gets rid of the menu bar, and headers are trimmed to nearly
> nothing. And with the URLview program as well, it's easy to get most
> URL's extracted for viewing from inside the mailer (launching lynx or
> whatever). We like mutt a whole lot...it's supplanted elm as my mailer
> of choice in a *ix environment. 
> -- 
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