Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list

[Ben]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 04:46, Holly Bostick wrote:
> How about this, then--> :-o ?

Yup, kmail knows that one too.

> Not to disrespect your mad cli skills, but that's a lot of additon
> there. Is the 'average' mutt user going to want to do all that? I am
> really asking, since I don't know anything about what the 'average' mutt
> user might want to do or be capable of doing under 'average'
> circumstances, simply by virtue of being a person who uses and enjoys
> mutt (which is on my list of apps to try one day).

Mutt is an amazing mail client, I heartily recommend it.  Given that mutt is
 a console based mail app, the average user seems to be relatively open to
 hacking the various config options to get it working the way they want it.
 There's a huge amount of resources out there to help you do so, whether it
 be other people's .mutt files or mailcaps, or the docs, such as
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html

Indeed on gentoo at least, a lot of the work is done for you, the 
default /etc/mailcap has some lynx entries, and the default mutt config files 
have the correct auto_view's.  So html mail should Just Work (tm).

mutt just can't be beat when you get a *lot* of mail.  I use it when I ssh to
my home machines, but I use it exclusively at work where I receive a lot more
mail.  Like a good editor, the keybindings and options can be initimidating
to learn, but once you have you tend to be much more productive than with gui
equivalents.

Having said all that, there's nothing I know of in mutt that will convert
ascii smileys into little emoticons ;)

> > You can see all sorts of obnoxious mail attachments this way, such as
> > msword via catdoc, and so forth.
>
> I was about to say, "Why on earth would you send a Word attachment to a
> mailing list?", then I thought about some of the posts I've seen on MLs
> this past week-- somebody sent a *10MB* trace log attachment to the Wine
> list.... so I realize that I already know that there are some people so
> clueless that they seem almost mad. So it is apparently important to
> tell people not to do such things (just as it is important to instruct
> people not to put their cat/dog in the microwave to dry them off after a
> bath).

True, true.  But despite peoples' best efforts to the contrary, as sure as
 the sun will rise and set, people will still send html mail with msword
attachments.  Sometimes you're just going to have to suck it up and read it.
Luckily with mutt and a couple of mime helpers, you can do so in plain text
in one xterm without too much fuss.
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