Lars Hecking writes:
> Brian Foster writes:
> > | From: Paolo Marchiori <paolo at marchiori.net>
> > | Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:48:06 +0200
> > |[ ... ]
> > | By the way, I have all my archives since 1998 and I would like
> > | to index them in a way that access to them through mutt would
> > | not result in being a PITA.
> > | Yes, I tried switching to a "more modern" (read: with GUI)
> > | mailreader but I'm so used to mutt [ ... ] that switching
> > | resulted exactly in the PITA I'm trying to avoid.
>> Yeah, GUI mailers suck big time. The worst aspect is being forced to
> take the hands off the keyboard for any actions. mutt is much quicker
> to use, and allows me to deal with large amounts of mail efficiently.
a plug: ExMH is a GUI mailer which can be entirely keyboard-driven.
(however, it's a Tk GUI, which looks a bit archaic by now.)
> For indexing, try mairix.
Or forward a copy to gmail ;)
--j.
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