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From: Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com>
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Subject: Re: Favorite Mail App?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:11:21 -0500
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<snip>
> > > Well, I can't speak for /the majority/; however I can recommend Mutt.
> > 
> > I second that. 
> 
> And I third it.
</snip>

I don't get it. Why recommend mutt to someone with "no special requirements" 
who just wants to send/recv mail? What need does it fill that the others 
cant, except require a rocket scientist a couple of weeks to configure? I 
can't speak for Brendan, but most of my users would ask me to install Windows 
if I made them use Mutt.

Brendan, if you really have no special requirements, "mail" works fine if 
you're not using any GUI. If you are, Sylpheed. Or of course, Kmail if you 
use KDE (I can't speak for whatever Gnome uses).


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