Good old decent holy war about mail clients

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Fri Oct 2 03:01:13 BST 2009


"Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
writes:

> On Thu, October 1, 2009 15:50, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>
>>> I'd like you to consider your post in the context of a Linux
>>> distribution "for human beings," i.e. not just for obsessive geeks.
>>> You may be entirely out of tune with who Ubuntu is for.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Enough already!!
>>
>> sounder is for die-hard linux guys not seeking free technical support.
>> We do things the good old way. Now everybody, put away your fancy GUI
>> email client (I do not care whether it is web-based or not) and use mutt
>> (install it if you have not already) or pine.

Why not use a real mail client like Gnus?

> Pine? Blasphemy!
> I feed my postfix output directly into my visual cortex!
> ;-)

I use Emacs: http://xkcd.com/378/



   Florian
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