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> This was trivial along time ago with mutt Nothing is trivial with mutt, especially not GPG related issues. If it seems easy to you then you're a very skilled

• pdkl95 11y ago
  Using mutt is pretty easy once you've set it up. Configuring it to use pgp (way before gpg existed) was a bit of a challenge years ago. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to most people today. At the time, most email programs required some technical knowledge to setup, so the difficulty is relative. My point is that these solutions have existed for a long time, even in what many would now call the "earlier" years of email. Even decades ago it was common to have the setup within and organization handled by IT. // mutt still wins over more "modern" email software in a lot of ways
  • dguaraglia 11y ago
    Yeah, it does, but tell that to the 99.99% of people who don't even know what a "terminal" is. I feel this kind of argument is the worst unintentional straw man: "we don't need to fix this problem, because there's a perfectly fine, super obscure solution". We need to fix this problem for the accountants, not the IT guys.
  • seagreen 11y ago
    Sorry if my comment seemed snappy. I actually am a current mutt user -- so I know its advantages. It's awesome when it is set up. I think you're getting downvoted in this thread because while you're trying to make a distinction between difficulty of setup and difficulty of use, the waters have already been poisoned by so many people that (wrongly) say "FOSS tools like mutt are easy to set up" that people are lumping you in with that group, even though that's not what you're saying.