On 31/07/12 2:04 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
"GPG support" is the only functional requirement you've given so far. Nearly all actively maintained MUAs support that.
Not all of it is up to scratch, though. There are some absolutely awful attempts floating around in Linux land.
We could look at The Bat! documentation to try to guess what his other functional requirements are, but it would be more accurate and less effort for him to simply tell us what they are.
IIRC he uses most, if not all, of the features. So extensive use of whatever method(s) of filtering it implements, response templates based on those filters, GPG support (the bonus here is he favours in-line over PGP/MIME, so all the MUAs that haven't worked out how to do that are back in the running; was it Evolution or KMail that screwed that up ... oh well, doesn't matter). Not sure what else because I haven't dived into The Bat! for more than a decade.
(Admittedly, failure to articulate meaningful requirements is an endemic problem. That's when you pay a consultant to trick them out of you, instead of asking a volunteer-staffed mailing list.)
To be honest, I didn't expect much of anything in the way of responses. It's a pretty obscure MUA that's only survived because it has a small, die-hard user base. I do remember that I considered it briefly, but switched to Linux and Mutt instead. That was a while ago, though. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter: benmcginnes Systems Administrator, Writer, Trainer, ICT Consultant Encrypted email preferred - primary OpenPGP/GPG key: 0x73590E5D http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x321E4E2373590E5D OpenPGP/GPG key transition: http://www.adversary.org/keyswitch.txt.asc