[OT] mutt configuration & philosophy (was Re: notmuch-mutt: Use of uninitialized value.)

[David Bremner]

Michael Elkins <me at sigpipe.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:13:22PM +0100, Profpatsch wrote:
>>Plus it still takes about 10 steps to configure a new account with
>>offlineimap, mutt and msmtp, there is nothing to automate this and
>>every config is different. Whoa.
>
> Mutt was designed with the UNIX philosophy in mind.  When users 
> don't like the way something is implemented in Mutt, you can use 
> an external tool to do the job instead.  We consider this to be a 
> feature, not a deficiency.

Hi Guys;

I know that once a thread starts on a mailing list, it is harder to kill
than a legion of zombies, but at this point the discussion has not much to
do with notmuch.

d