[Gllug] Alternatives to googlemail

Philip Hands phil at hands.com
Mon May 30 13:56:28 UTC 2011


On Mon, 30 May 2011 12:10:53 +0100, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com> wrote:
> On 30 May 2011 12:07, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 30 May 2011, Philip Hands said:
> >> plugged into emacs it is, and I've heard success stories from people
> >> using it from vim and mutt as well -- yes, that's right, there are
> >> people using vim as their MUA ;-)
> >
> > It is as it was said long ago: all programs will grow until they can
> > read mail. I think vim is subject to a special form of this: it is
> > growing until it becomes Emacs.
> 
> Um, I use vim as the editor with mutt. I suppose that these together
> form an MUA.

Yeah, that's fairly routine mutt usage.

I was talking about using vim + notmuch as one's MUA:

  http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/notmuch.vim

Cheers, Phil.
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