[10313] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocco J Pigneri)
Thu Feb 19 17:49:02 2004
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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: exmh upgrade
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:51:21 EST."
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:48:27 -0500
From: Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@MIT.EDU>
Dear Mr. Hawkinson,
I like exmh because it provides a very flexible and functional UI to
nmh, my favorite mail handler. exmh is incredibly customizable. I
can add buttons to the toolbars, change the editor, and view my
folders in a wide variety of ways. It also provides an adequate
viewer for MIME, text, and HTML e-mail. While exmn isn't flashy, it
does have all the features that I want and runs very lightly. This
makes it a win in my book.
I cannot really compare exmh to mutt, evolution, or pine since I
really haven't used any of those programs. I have used Outlook, but I
really don't like the huge overhead of Outlook or its "one road, one
way" UI design. Outlook just runs far too heavily to be worthwhile.
Now, of course, my review of exmh wouldn't be finished without my
complaints against it. Fortunately, most of my complaints are against
nmh, the functional backbone of exmh, and not against exmh itself. It
would be nice if nmh would forward or reply to MIME-encoded e-mail by
only including the text of the message or by reformatting my message
so that it is read correctly by most e-mail handlers. Currently, the
MIME encoding is treated as text, which causes my e-mail to look
incredibly ugly on other people's machines. It would also be nice if
it would parse the HTML e-mails properly so that they can be easily
viewed in a web browser if need be. Of course, I would also like a
way to attach messages, but that may also be something that I just
haven't figured out how to do yet with nmh. The MIME complaints are
actually serious enough that I have considered changing to Pine, but I
am going to do some more research and see if the functionality that I
want is already in nmh.
Anyhow, I hope that that answers your question. If you want some more
information, please feel free to e-mail me again.
Thank you,
Rocco Pigneri
- --- Original Message Follows --- -
Rocco J Pigneri <rpigneri@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sun, 8 Feb 2004
at 23:20:27 -0500 in <200402090420.i194KR9i019159@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>:
> I am an exhm user, and I really enjoy using this piece of software.
> Exmh makes my life easier by providing a graphical face to nmh, my
> preferred mail handler. In all, I really enjoy using exmh.
I'm curious -- why do you find exmh superior to evolution, mutt, and pine?
--jhawk
