Mutt 1.6

#1

Post by janvdberg » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

Mutt 1.6
mutt.org

Re: Mutt 1.6

#2

Post by dguido » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:14 PM UTC

S/MIME and GPG support out of the box, that's amazing!

Re: Mutt 1.6

#3

Post by nextos » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

I use it daily. It's a lovely email client. Close to the Unix ideal of doing one thing, and doing it well.

Integration with other utilities (notmuch, isync) for indexing and sync'ing is very easy, thanks to close adherence to Unix principles, and gets you a very neat setup. Nothing to envy from Gmail.

Re: Mutt 1.6

#4

Post by luxpir » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:24 PM UTC

dguido wrote: post #2

S/MIME and GPG support out of the box, that's amazing!

That's not strictly new in this version. I've had that enabled (hesitate to say been using) for a while now.

Anyone know if the hanging between wifi to cable connections is resolved yet? Aside from that I'm much quicker and more productive with my inboxes now. Sidebar patch, hotkey per mailbox... Very quick icedove replacement.

PS: Workaround for the connection thing is to ctrl-z when it hangs, and fg the other instance for that connection.

Re: Mutt 1.6

#5

Post by 0x0 » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:29 PM UTC

Since Debian already ships 1.5.23 (or 1.5.24 in testing), here's a list of changes between each development version leading up to 1.6.0:

http://www.mutt.org/doc/UPDATING

Re: Mutt 1.6

#6

Post by SwellJoe » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:29 PM UTC

It's been many years since I've used mutt, but I'm considering going back to it. For a while, HTML email had become so common that it was uncomfortable to use a text email client, but that trend seems to have reversed...most of my business communication is plain text (maybe a shift in the people I interact with for business). The speed of mutt is damned near impossible to beat, and the bandwidth usage is so tiny (I can run it on the server, rather than locally, so only the mails I actually open get transferred). I'm living on the road again, and mobile internet has gotten incredibly expensive (I spend approximately $300/month on Internet now, even with very little video and large downloads), so I've been using a web-based mail client more often (Usermin, which is one that I work on, so it's an "eat your own dog food" situation), but it is currently not particularly fast for dealing with hundreds of emails per day.

Re: Mutt 1.6

#7

Post by hueving » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

nextos wrote: post #3

I use it daily. It's a lovely email client. Close to the Unix ideal of doing one thing, and doing it well. Integration with other utilities (notmuch, isync) for indexing and sync'ing is very easy, thanks to close adherence to Unix principles, and gets you a very neat setup. Nothing to envy from Gmail.

>Nothing to envy from Gmail.

What do you use for mobile access?

Re: Mutt 1.6

#8

Post by elsigh » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:31 PM UTC

nextos wrote: post #3

I use it daily. It's a lovely email client. Close to the Unix ideal of doing one thing, and doing it well. Integration with other utilities (notmuch, isync) for indexing and sync'ing is very easy, thanks to close adherence to Unix principles, and gets you a very neat setup. Nothing to envy from Gmail.

> Nothing to envy from Gmail.

I switched because of search, which is amazing in gmail and hard in mutt (for me). What do you do?

Re: Mutt 1.6

#9

Post by profeta » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:33 PM UTC

elsigh wrote: post #8

nextos wrote: post #3

I use it daily. It's a lovely email client. Close to the Unix ideal of doing one thing, and doing it well. Integration with other utilities (notmuch, isync) for indexing and sync'ing is very easy, thanks to close adherence to Unix principles, and gets you a very neat setup. Nothing to envy from Gmail.

> Nothing to envy from Gmail. I switched because of search, which is amazing in gmail and hard in mutt (for me). What do you do?

> search amazing in gmail.

really? until a few months ago, you couldn't find anything besides whole words with textual search on gmail. why do people have it's search at such high standards? how bad was the alternative you had?

Re: Mutt 1.6

#10

Post by lemonade » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:34 PM UTC

luxpir wrote: post #4

dguido wrote: post #2

S/MIME and GPG support out of the box, that's amazing!

That's not strictly new in this version. I've had that enabled (hesitate to say been using) for a while now. Anyone know if the hanging between wifi to cable connections is resolved yet? Aside from that I'm much quicker and more productive with my inboxes now. Sidebar patch, hotkey per mailbox... Very quick icedove replacement. PS: Workaround for the connection thing is to ctrl-z when it hangs, and fg the other insta…

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