On 7 November 2014 at 10:49, norm@dad.orgwrote:
Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
(Half a year ago)
I've thought about the nmh target audience ... I guess my thinking is the
ideal nmh user be programmers who want a flexible MUA that can make use of
many of the features of the Unix command line.
Have your ambitions changed in the intervening six months? Specifically, do
you believe that nmh is now a "flexible MUA" for a user who does not know MIME
and does not have access to somebody who knows both nmh and MIME. Or that such
a MUA is even possible, in 2014?
I'd still like a user be able to walk up to a nmh installation and the basic
commands be useful without any configuration, though.
But is such a user better off wih nmh or with some GUI based MUA?
In the 27yrs I'm using [n]mh, I've always used a GUI frontend, but also
used it on the command line.
Over the years I've gone through xmh, exmh, and now sylpheed (and sylpheed
isn't a *pure* [n]mh frontend, but understands the MH format).
When it comes to MIME, that has been the predominant reason for my use of
a GUI frontend. When I'm on my local machine with a display, the GUI is
used. When I connect remotely, I use the command line commands. A MIME
encapsulated email is a bit hard to handle via an ssh session.
Norman Shapiro
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