Andy Fletcher

Anyone remember the old Mutt email client?

I had to use it again this evening to successfully find a 10 year old email from a bank buried in a 4GB MBox file in my archive. Quick grep to find the correct file then Mutt to view the message..

I've not used Mutt for about 15 years but the keystrokes came back to me almost immediately along with memories of SSH sessions to remote mail servers 25 years ago.

Happy days.

#linux #mutt #email #nostalgia

May 19 at 4:06pmWeb
Show threadQuixoticgeekMay 19
@X31Andy I still use it as my mail client...
Show threadDaveKnowsTechMay 19
@X31Andy this computer nerd salutes you..
Show threadIan TindaleMay 22
@X31Andy the other day I happened in passing to comment on someone’s post by mentioning that not a lot of people know this but macOS’s print system is actually CUPS underneath it all, and to check I walked over to my Mac and into a browser I typed localhost:631 and was then shocked to realise I’d done that automatically and yet the last time I messed about with that was probably well over two decades ago ! (The web interface to macOS CUPS wasn’t enabled, it isn’t by default, but it’s easy to enable, I didn’t bother, I don’t need it to be) - but yes, how do I remember it’s :631 when I’ve forgotten almost everything I ever didn’t even know about computery stuff and hardly ever think about computery stuff at all because I don’t like that world