I ♥ Free Software: Mutt
▻http://hroy.eu/posts/ilovefs-mutt
Today is Valentine’s day, a day to celebrate love. But at the Free Software Foundation Europe, we like to challenge traditions. So we thought: why not also celebrate Free Software on this day? Because what makes Free Software so great is the people who make it, it’s the community!
And what better personal example than my use of the mutt email agent to explain why this community is truly important?
I’ve always been a bit curious about mutt. Mutt is a program that lives in your terminal, and basically all it does is show an index of emails in mailboxes, then lets you view these emails. In the pure UNIX tradition, the rest is left to other tools. So every tool has its focus on what it’s good at; and everything is glued together with open formats and protocoles.
The reason why I’ve been (...)