[geeks] Speaking of Mozilla.....

[Dan Duncan]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Caleb Shay wrote:
> It _includes_ pico, but that doesn't mean you have to _use_ pico.

Of course not, and I don't, but that doesn't make it not suck.

> When I don't have X available (rarely), I use pine with vim as my
> editor.  I've tried using mutt, but I could never really get things to
> work even reasonably well.  I use imap exclusively, and I have over 50
> imap folders.  I can't say I've ever actually tried elm.  Does it do
> imap, or is it for local spools only?

Local only.  I handle multiple accounts/sorting/etc with fetchmail
and procmail and then just use elm for reading the email.

I like my email client short, sweet, and low-bandwidth.  I
read email from any number of locations and it's just so
much easier to ssh to a shell account and go from there.  It's
the way I've always done email and USENET, and I haven't found
a compelling reason to do otherwise.   Y2K didn't break elm,
so I still use it.

Elm is so old it doesn't even handle attachments.  When people tell
me about viruses that infect them or scams they get that involve
tricking the user into clicking on a page that LOOKS like it goes
to $MYBANK I just laugh.  A lot.  For ages.  Not only do I NOT
want my email client to display HTML, but I have procmail filters
that chuck any inbound email written exclusively in html straight
into the bit bucket.

No one worth emailing with would email me in html.

-DanD

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