Mon, 28 Feb 2005
It looks like mutt development is starting to
pickup again. For those not familiar with it, mutt is the best email client
out there. Development has forked and there is a new mutt-ng project. Kyle Rankin has
written up a little
summary. So far, it's mostly just integration of many of the third-party
patches that have been
available for a while. Since the Debian package includes many of these patches
already, including one of the most important, header caching, that's not too
exciting.
Two of the new features included in mutt-ng are a sidebar and nntp support.
The sidebar is similar to those in most gui mail readers which shows the number
of messages in the folders in your mailboxes. With
pager_index_lines set, mutt basically looks like a text-mode
version of the common three-pane interface in most gui clients. I'll probably
unsubscribe from the exim-users mailing list once the newsreader works since I
can just read the gmane group. Right now,
trying to read a usenet message causes a segfault unfortunately.
mutt-ng seems a bit slower too. Returning from the pager to the index takes an
extra second or so.
Debian packages for sid are here:
deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/ unstable/
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