[OT] mutt configuration & philosophy (was Re: notmuch-mutt: Use of uninitialized...

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+From: Michael Elkins <me@sigpipe.org>\r
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+Subject: [OT] mutt configuration & philosophy (was Re: notmuch-mutt: Use of\r
+       uninitialized value.)\r
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+On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:13:22PM +0100, Profpatsch wrote:\r
+>Plus it still takes about 10 steps to configure a new account with\r
+>offlineimap, mutt and msmtp, there is nothing to automate this and\r
+>every config is different. Whoa.\r
+\r
+Mutt was designed with the UNIX philosophy in mind.  When users \r
+don't like the way something is implemented in Mutt, you can use \r
+an external tool to do the job instead.  We consider this to be a \r
+feature, not a deficiency.\r
+\r
+>For example:\r
+>Why does one have to spend two–four hours enabling pgp with the basic,\r
+>pre-configured commands?\r
+>Why is there no command that enables pgp with default sane gnupg values\r
+>that I assume 99.9% of mutt users use?\r
+\r
+set crypt_use_gpgme\r
+\r
+>Why is the standard mailbox named “spooldir” and an easy explanation of\r
+>that is nowhere to be found in the official docs?\r
+\r
+We assume users are familiar with basic UNIX concepts like the \r
+mail spool.\r
+\r
+>And the list goes on.\r
+\r
+Documentation patches are highly welcome.\r