From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E302431FBC for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:59:53 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zYS-YJAZyxLO for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF2BF431FAF for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034082078.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.82.78] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1U67mN-00068t-4t; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:59:49 -0400 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1U67mH-0001tL-81; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:59:41 -0400 From: David Bremner To: Michael Elkins , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [OT] mutt configuration & philosophy (was Re: notmuch-mutt: Use of uninitialized value.) In-Reply-To: <20130214195338.GA21433@sigpipe.org> References: <20130212005801.GA8419@soarin> <20130213223535.GA3258@zaogao.lan> <20130213233657.GA4489@soarin> <20130214083713.GA4123@upsilon.cc> <20130214141322.GA26490@soarin> <20130214195338.GA21433@sigpipe.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.15.1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:59:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87pq027b8i.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:59:53 -0000 Michael Elkins 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