1) xmh (obsolete, I assume)
I would be shocked if people still use xmh; wasn't it written with
Athena Widgets? Eww.
2) MH-E
There is a relatively active MH-E community; I'm a vi user myself, so I
never tried it. From what I can tell they've extended it to make up for
the deficiencies in MH; I can kind of understand that, since there was a
period in the 90s when MH development essentially stopped (a long and
tortuous period).
3) exmh
So, this is the one I use. Sadly, I kind of wish development had progressed
on this a bit more. It's mostly functional, but not perfect. Brent Welch
doesn't work on it anymore; I believe Valdis still has commits privs on it,
but a new release hasn't appeared in a while (changes still get committed
to the tree, though). It's also written in Tcl, which seems to have fallen
out of favor but still is being developed. I still hold a soft spot in
my heart for Tcl, so maybe I'm biased.
4) MH-V
Written by Steve Rader after he got tired of the crap from the Claws Mail
people. Written in Perl. I did try it out, but I think Steve used an
old version of nmh, because it gave me some errors when I ran it (but it
had basic functionality). I believe there are users of it, but I don't
know how many.
Could you please give a brief assesment of each, based on your experience?
Which one would be the best bet for a newbie?
I'm not sure I am the best person to answer you, but ones that are
probably the most complete out of those are MH-E and exmh. I have no idea
if anyone has updated xmh to be compatible with nmh, and I don't even know
if it supports MIME (I see it still ships with X11, but I can't believe
anyone has tested it recently).
I will note that AFAIK the only front-end that works with GNU Mailutils
is MH-E. I do not believe any of the other front-ends have been tested
with GNU Mailutils, but I could be wrong.
--Ken
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