Brews you can use

I’ve been using an MUA almost as old as I am, for about a third of both of our lives.  I’m speaking of MH, of course.  Predates pine, elm, and if you’ve accidentally typed “mail” at a UNIX prompt and gotten an inscrutable (nice way of saying “unusable”) little program, MH predates that, too.

I finally got fed up with the spottily-supported MH mailbox format (MH supports it well, Procmail works, UW-IMAP only grudgingly and slooowly, and that’s about it for mail programs) and started looking elsewhere.  All the cool kids, including about everyone at work uses mutt, and today I’m joining them.  It’s taking quite a bit of getting used to: MH had its advantages for the way I read mail.  More likely, I had warped the way I read mail to conform with MH.

So here ends my more than 10-year exclusive MH use.  Sniff.  Somehow it wouldn’t work to raise a large monolithic glass in memory of the little gaggle of utilities that is MH.  A bunch of little glasses maybe

[note: this post may be retroactively declared that sort of April 1st post at any point in the future, at the author's sole discretion.]

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 1st, 2006 at 12:47 am and is filed under Computers & Internet.