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That sounds completely doable for 99% of internet users! Surprised my grandma hasn't already been using this exact workflow.
by binxbolling 14y ago
That sounds completely doable for 99% of internet users! Surprised my grandma hasn't already been using this exact workflow.
- dredmorbius 14y agoFirst off: this is Hacker News, not Grandma News. How often has your grandmother's mail agent changed over the time she's been using it? One of the reason us old farts have a fondness for commandline and console tools is that they have a strong tendency to remain remarkably consistent over time. I started using mutt in the late 1990s. for the past 13 years, my preferred (though far from only) email environment has changed very, very little. Other than mutt, I've used at various points in time: BSD mail, BSD mailx, cc:mail, various versions of Microsoft Mail / Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, Lotus Notes (ugh!), the VMS mail client, elm, pine, Mail.app, Evolution, Sylpheed, KMail, the Palm Centro mail app, the Android mail app, K9Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, Microsoft OWS, Zimbra, and others. It's not that I haven't tried the alternatives. It's that when it comes down to it, mutt fits my needs, workflow, and practices better than the others.