Advice on CLI mail client that support mail threading

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:41:51PM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> How crazy is that?  Why does it need to be so complex?

Well... OTOH since it's UNIX then you can interchange virtually
every tool in the chain if/when Something Else (TM) fits you
better.  For example, you can switch delivery agents, spam
filters etc quite easily and mostly without intervening the rest 
of the age-old setup.

It's much easier to play different MUAs (e.g. read mail both with
mutt and seamonkey) when the filtering is done externally and
there's no need to redo all the folder filtering rules and spam
training for each new UI agent.

To recap, this plays well for a case like relatively few (e.g.
dozens) of relatively high-volume mail sources (like mailing
lists).  This doesn't play exactly well with things like
"business mail" where you might need to create lots of folders
and lots of per-correspondent filtering rules and might need 
to launch OOCalc on occasional .xls more than often.

I tend to use two mutts under screen(1) on a remote server for
this personal inbox and mailing lists, and seamonkey -mail on 
our corporate IMAP for business mail.

If you fear all of those and aren't really bogged down by lots of
significant email, maybe mutt just isn't for you [yet].  In my
case, the configuration linked required the sacrifice of quite
a weekend (and a day or two later with some tweaks and fixes),
including reading documentation and writing configuration which
was quite a flashback after getting used to pine's menus and
occasional config tweaking.  But it was worth it, time-wise.

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