[Gllug] Giving mutt a try

[Richard Turner]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:50:50AM +0100, Anthony Newman declaimed:
> The last thing I'd want to do is start a silly MTA flame-war, but I'm 
> confused why anyone would choose to use the horror that is Postfix in a 
> new installation. I could understand it if you knew nothing else and had 
> used nothing else for decades, but Exim can replace $mta+procmail and 
> it's newer (irrelevant, I know) and much more functional, and might be 
> more recommended to start out with these days. ditto Sendmail.
> 
Well, I'd not go so far as to say Postfix is a horror. I went to
configure sendmail first, since that's what's installed by default with
Fedora, but wasn't prepared to spend that much time to grok it all. On
the other hand Postfix, the other MTA that ships with Fedora, was easy
enough to do what I need.

I'm not advocating any MTA over another or subscribing to a religion -
at the end of the day they all move email around and that's all that
matters :)

> I probably don't have enough info to make this sort of judgement though, 
> I just like banging the Exim drum :-)

Equally I know nothing of Exim, which is the only reason I didn't
consider it!
 
> </£0.02>
> 
> 
> > * vim (I'm only just beginning to learn this too)
> I feel your pain.

So, you don't want to start an MTA flame war but revisiting the vi/emacs
debate is fine? ;) I'm quite liking vim actually - so far it's easier
(to my way of thinking) than trying to remember long strings of C-?
commands.

-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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