Whither nmh?

[Jonathan Corbet]

Interesting...it appears that nmh got dropped out of FC2?  Was that a
deliberate decision?  There was, at least, one user left...  Guess it's
time for a "grumpy editor" column on mail clients.

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet(a)lwn.net

[Jos Vos]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:44:56PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

>  Interesting...it appears that nmh got dropped out of FC2?  Was that
> a
>  deliberate decision?  There was, at least, one user left...  Guess it's
>  time for a "grumpy editor" column on mail clients. 
IMHO (n)mh is the best UNIX-style mail client, I use it all the day.
Mutt comes on place 2, but I'm using MH now for 15 years or so, and
I'm still amazed how many people *think* they can process their mail
efficiently with Evolution ;-).

So, yes, I vote for getting nmh back!

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[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:59:39PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
>  IMHO (n)mh is the best UNIX-style mail client, I use it all the day.
>  Mutt comes on place 2, but I'm using MH now for 15 years or so, and
>  I'm still amazed how many people *think* they can process their mail
>  efficiently with Evolution ;-).
>  
>  So, yes, I vote for getting nmh back! 
http://fedora.us has instructions for add on packages and Im sure nmh
will end up there

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:06:17 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:

>  On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:59:39PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
>  > IMHO (n)mh is the best UNIX-style mail client, I use it all the day.
>  > Mutt comes on place 2, but I'm using MH now for 15 years or so, and
>  > I'm still amazed how many people *think* they can process their mail
>  > efficiently with Evolution ;-).
>  > 
>  > So, yes, I vote for getting nmh back!
>  
>  http://fedora.us has instructions for add on packages and Im sure nmh
>  will end up there 
Theoretically, whenever there are multiple users with interest in a
package, it should be fairly easy to get it published at fedora.us when
these people team up.

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:44:56PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>  Interesting...it appears that nmh got dropped out of FC2?  Was that
> a
>  deliberate decision?  There was, at least, one user left...  Guess it's
>  time for a "grumpy editor" column on mail clients. 
Oh well.. we didnt know both users of mh ran Fedora 8)

Alan