Mutt Fork Adds Features From Notmuch 93
Karel Zak started a fork of Mutt back in January to integrate features the upstream authors deemed too radical, and today released the first status update. So far implemented is native notmuch support (inspired by Sup) which adds fast search, tagging, and virtual folders from notmuch queries. Unlike the current hackish solutions, all of these are available as native mutt commands and can be used in your muttrc. Additionally, patches from Debian and other distributions will be integrated. Source is over at Github, and a few screenshots are on their wiki.
oblig. abbott and costello joke (Score:5, Funny)
"Whats in your new release?"
"Notmuch"
"That's what I'm asking, what did you add that's not in the original software?"
"Notmuch"
"Oh... well, did you improve on the performance?"
"No, that's still the same as Mutt"
"Still as slow as a dog?"
"No, it's at least as fast as Mutt"
Re:Who uses Mutt? (Score:5, Funny)
"Any serious email user who doesn't top-post." I once proposed that anyone who top-posted or full-quoted should lose a finger every time they did so. I believe that the overall quailty of mail traffic, particularly on large mailing lists, would be markedly improved in short order. Regrettably, the RFC didn't find traction within the IETF. Pity.