2008/135 Mail Utilities

[James Carlson]

Stephen Talley writes:
> Mutt with s-lang adds flexibility when defining colors; namely, the
> keyword "default" may be used as a foreground or background argument
> to the "color" subcommand.  Useful for users who want mutt to retain
> the background color/pixmap of their terminal when it is run.

At the cost of having a completely independent and possibly incorrect
terminal information database to maintain ... right?

It seems like a pretty minor feature with a long tail, but if it's
what you really want, then I'll give in.

> > Please make at least fetchmail and procmail either Committed or (at
> > worst) Uncommitted.  They're useless as Volatile, and given that
> > many of us have relied on these utilities for a decade or more
> > without seeing any incompatible changes, dubbing them "Volatile"
> > merely because the author doesn't draw an SMI paycheck seems wrong.
> 
> That argument probably can extend to mutt as well.  It's command line
> has evolved quite stably in its lifetime.

Probably so ... but I can see mutt being useful even without a stable
user interface on it, because it's normally driven directly by humans
who can (presumably) read the documentation when things don't turn out
as expected.  Fetchmail and procmail are normally used inside scripts
and buried in the bowels of someone's personal system configuration,
and thus breakage is most unwelcome, no matter the source.

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