[arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jan 15, Ralf Madorf did say:

> I don't understand why that much people are using MUAs without a GUI,
> anyway, a penfriend is blind, reading braille, a good reason to use a
> GUI free MUA.

And a good reason to support email standards that are still friendly to
plain-text clients...

My original reason for liking alpine had to do with having gotten used to
pine with a Unix login I had with a former employer... That plus NOT having
good mouse manipulation skills (I feel a little like a 3yr old trying to
color within the lines...) Along with NOT wanting my email client to
automatically fetching content from the web (If I decide I "want" to
actually view some stinking HTML mail the way the sender want's me to I can
choose to pipe it through Firefox...) And then there have been a few times
when I've managed to break something X needs, and having access to all my
email resources from the console was then a wonderful thing. 

> An Email I received yesterday was written with User-Agent:
> Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)
> Debian testing and unstable are at 2.02-3 too.
> I don't think that Alpin will be dropped by major distros.

I'm happy to agree. 
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