[NTLUG:Discuss] email client and VIM

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Thu Feb 24 07:45:43 CST 2000


Kendall Clark wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Kelly" == Kelly Scroggins <kelly at cliffhanger.com> writes:
> 
>     Kelly> Can anyone suggest an email client that uses VIM (vi)?  I
>     Kelly> know elm uses vi but I want something that uses POP, and it
>     Kelly> would be nice if there was a Windows port as well.
> 
> You likely want mutt. Try http://www.mutt.org/. I don't think there's
> a Windows port. Mutt won't itself do anything, iirc, with POP, but you
> can use fetchmail to handle the mail transport. Mutt lets you set an
> external editor that's called in message composition. I used to use it
> with Emacs, then XEmacs, then just gave up and started using VM.

Actually mutt does do pop mail along with imap.  If you want to do
filtering into seperate mail boxes, then fetchmail and procmail are
recomended.

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