Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:15:21PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote:

> Trying to stick to the email topic, consider how much easier it is to
> grep the /Mail folder, or use Mutt's ~b search, instead of trying to
> figure out Thunderbird's clunky search interface. To use just one
> example.

Actually both make it very simple to filter by author and subject (in Thunderbird: just type text in the "search" field, in mutt - press l, type your text and Enter).

Learning all of those ~CHAR patters takes time, and they are not accessible enough from within the interface (compare pine's on-line help to mutt's)

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