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List:       mutt-dev
Subject:    Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation
From:       "jpacner () redhat ! com" <jpacner () redhat ! com>
Date:       2013-10-24 8:41:32
Message-ID: 5268DD3C.9040303 () redhat ! com
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> Mutt might not *any longer* be able to garner that kind of support.
> The number of people I know who use Mutt today has become A LOT
> smaller than the number of people I know who previously used Mutt.
> It's a small project which fills a particular niche that is becoming
> less and less interesting, based on my conversations with many of the
> people I know who use or have used Mutt.  Specifically: 
> 
> For a lot of people, its lack of modern features provided by the likes
> of gmail, Evolution, Thunderbird, etc. has come to outweigh the
> benefits of having a curses-based client with a small footprint.
> There clearly are some die-hard users who don't feel that way, but in
> my experience even many of those have spent a significant amount of
> time investigating whether something else would meet their needs
> better.  Myself included.  And for what it's worth, for me at least,
> it mostly boils down to a tie of tradeoffs, where sticking with the
> thing I already know breaks the tie.  Some of the existing projects
> are pretty close to convincing me to move away from Mutt, though.  And
> if there ever was a decent client that could work in BOTH curses mode
> AND GUI mode, I would switch in a heartbeat.

I'm afraid you expressed my doubts very well.

> Indeed.  And up to this point, the maintainers have more or less
> indicated an unwillingness to go down that path.  Which in my mind
> puts Mutt basically in maintenance mode; i.e. development is dead.

Which in turn doesn't mean, the tickets shouldn't be resolved. But quite
the opposite.

Regards

-- Jan Pacner
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