"and spend the hours it will require to dial in and maintain your configuration." This is my main gripe with mutt. The days where I could futz around with 100

"and spend the hours it will require to dial in and maintain your configuration." This is my main gripe with mutt. The days where I could futz around with 100 config setting for hours are long behind me. Just having to set up an smtp daemon every time, and having to maintain it, is such a pain in the ass. Probably most tools have moved on by now (I moved away from mutt in 2004 or 2005) but I used mostly postfix and qmail (when I got fed up with one I switched to the other for a few months, etc). Just having to remember the dozens of idiosyncrasies in those was enough of a PITA to make me switch to an integrated graphical mail program. My main method of searching email was grep -R ~/.Maildir . When I think back about that - ugh.