Advice on CLI mail client that support mail threading

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:29:30PM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > > > I'm after a CLI mail client that supports Mail Threading
> > > > (like the gmail interface does).  What would people advise I
> > > > use? (I've never used a CLI mail client before either)
> > > mutt  (http://www.mutt.org), available in the main repository
> > +1
> > > The web site has example of configuration files to help you at
> > > the beginning.
> > There's also Mutt FAQ and seems there were useful snippets
> > at dotfiles.com.
> I'm having some trouble finding how to set mutt up..


> It seems to me that mutt doesn't have any innate ability to
> make pop3 or imap calls on it's own.. instead you need to point
> it at another app to do that??

Yes, something else (like getmail or fetchmail) should take care
of getting the mail to localhost; something else (like procmail, 
sieve or maybe ifile) should take care of sorting it over the
folders.

Something else should also do SMTP to send mail (postfix, exim,
msmtp...).


Somewhat more integrated and user-friendly CLI MUA is Pine;
although I've personally abandoned it for mutt long ago due
to the latter being programmable and way more robust with
growing mail traffic volumes.

There's also a thing called nail, didn't look at this one.


For the record, my (pruned and a bit out-of-date) configuration
is available here (updates included scoring rules mostly):

http://old.linux.kiev.ua/~mike/misc/muttrc-20020703_mike.tar.bz2

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