[svlug] My escape from Kmail is featured in the 2/2012 issue of Linux Productivity Magazine

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:11:14 -0800
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):
> 
> > Here it is:
> > 
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm
> > 
> > Apparently this is timely and topical.
> 
> Oh, this is going to be popcorn-worthy.  Folks, if you haven't read
> one of Steve Litt's excellent articles at troubleshooters.com, you
> really should.  Every one of them I've seen so far has been
> thoughtful and well worth the time.

Thank you Rick!

> 
> Steve, mutt _still_ works, by the way.  ;->

OOPS, I actually meant to imply in the article that not only does mutt
still work, but it's excellent. If there's any part of that article
where I said something bad about mutt either by commission or
omission, please let me know where, and I'll fix it.

> 
> (Me, I just stick with mutt under screen, running 24x7 on my receiving
> SMTP host.  Who needs an MRA when you can ssh in and read directly
> from a local mail spool?)

I'm not man enough to set up an SMTP server. I'm ESPECIALLY not man
enough to set up a sendmail server. But anyway, I can use
Fetchmail->procmail to deposit to my local mail spool, and read that
from Mutt. When the dust dies down, I'll be checking out mutt's IMAP
connectivity, which I hear is pretty good. I might have mutt be my
secondary email client.


> 
> However, you disappointed me by still, in 2012, holding a torch for
> Reply-To munging, which not only was always a dumb idea, but also
> lost for good at IETF, starting eleven years ago.
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=netiquette#replyto

:-)

I eliminated that part of it, not because I don't still believe what I
said, but because I don't want to open up a two front war, and I'm
going to be getting enough grief from KDE advocates :-).

If anyone really wants to discuss my belief that when you reply to a
mailing list post it should default to the list, not the sender, we can
do that in another thread, but that wasn't the main point of my article.

If most modern email clients automatically send to the list in the
absence of a reply-to header, then I'll back off what I said (and then
removed).

Thanks

SteveT