On 12.02.12 23:39, Craig Sanders wrote:
i probably should just set up fetchmail or something. also, i can tolerate TB because of the external editor plugin which lets me use gvim to edit messages.
Yes, much can be forgiven so long as composing is in your natural environment. Never having bought into the hassles of trying to synchronise mail here and there on the internet, I've always just used fetchmail. There's not much to set up after package install, apart from taking a quick look in /etc/init.d/fetchmail to read two line on auto-starting the thing. (Both ubuntu 7.10 and 10.04 had "START_DAEMON=no" in /etc/default/fetchmail, on installation. (Especially if re-using an old .fetchmailrc)
at home, i still use mutt & procmail. in a screen session, with a script to start up about 20 mutts backgrounded (one for each mailbox i switch to regularly - otherwise switching mailboxes(*) in mutt involves closing the current mailbox. doing this, switching mboxes is as simple as ^Z and then 'fg n' - the script starts the mutts in the same order every time, so i've memorised the job numbers for particular mboxes by now, e.g. 'fg 1' for ~mail/cas, 'fg 10' for luv-main, 'fg 11' for luv-talk
Now _that_ is an idea. When using just one mutt, it's so easy for mails to cross since you're blind while composing. Hit send, and I see 7 people have answered the guy's question while I was labouring over a long-winded reply.
(*) yes, i still use mbox files...haven't ever had any really compelling reason to switch to Maildir
Yes, well, there seem to be all sorts of things, these days, which are newer and therefore better. I probably have less than a million emails, and they're in 1041 mailboxes, so I can't think of a reason either. Erik -- There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better" - John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"