[lug] Mutt versus Pine

[Brad Grissom]

I've also heard good things about Mutt.  Specificially, I heard you can
have e-mails automatically filed into folders.  For example, all [lug]
e-mails go into a lug folder.

What I'd like to know is can that be done with pine?

~~Brad Grissom
Colorado School of Mines

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, J. Wayde Allen wrote:

>
> I've been toying with the idea of trying to switch from Pine to Mutt.  No
> particularly good reason other than a lot of people I respect seem to like
> Mutt.  I've been tinkering a bit this afternoon, and it looks to me like
> Mutt works fine, but ...
>
>    - Does Mutt have an address book, if so how do you use it?
>
>    - How do you setup the default behavior?  I'm guessing there is a
>      config file so will go see if I can find it.
>
>    - Can one have what in Pine is called a "Role"?  That sets ones "From:"
>      header depending on a set of address rules.
>
> One question is, do people prefer Mutt over Pine, and if so why? I guess
> maybe I need a bit of a push.
>
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
>
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