Re: [tlug] Followup on mutt and gpg

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:41:41PM +0900, Ulrich Plate wrote:

>Which was essentially the most fun in the process! Wiggling the mouse did it, 
>I liked that! :-)

It does tell you that when it starts the key gen, but on any moderately
quick machine, the key gen happens very quickly and it's easy
to miss it.  Sounds like that's what happened to you.

>Is there a GUI version of Mutt somewhere? 

No, but it has occassionally been discussed in some
dark corners.  That would have some interesting points,
but the trick is making it GUI without breaking the
stuff that makes it Mutt.  It's gotta be fast.  Blazingly fast.
Mutt is by far the fastest MUA out there, and the GUI would have
to be quick, light, and not too far off the mark.  At the least,
it would have to be worlds faster than any other GUI MUA.

Second, it would have to keep not only the same key bindings,
but hot keys.  Hot keys are something that took a bit of getting
used to for me, but once I did, I found them to be indispensable
in a MUA. 

The other big reason I use Mutt would make GUIing tough,
though.  I usually have Mutt open on my workstation, on our
postmaster mail host, and often on my home machine as well.
Mutt is fast even across a PPP link (a 128K one, anyway, but
I bet even 33.6 would be manageable).  Running a GUI program
over a 128K line is painful.  Even a small, light GUI.

Jonathan
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