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Mutt is an excellent MUA. What is the reason for developing Elmo then?
* that Mutt is nice doesn't mean that it's impossible to write something
better
* with Elmo you don't have to install an SMTP server
* Elmo will happily fetch your mail for you
* Elmo contains a friendly implementation of Bayesian spam filter
-- say goodbye to spam today
* Elmo is being developed much faster than Mutt
* Elmo already contains some features you may like, and we will add
much more in the future
* Elmo is _very_ fast and very efficient. You will appreciate it
as your mailbox grows
* Mutt has a large user base, which means many people with their
well-formed habits. Even if some smart person liked to
introduce some really useful feature that changed Mutt's
look-or-feel in a fundamental way, such a change would be
a difficult one. In Elmo we still have some space for
experiments and "revolutionary" improvements
* Elmo is a new project. We learn from succeses and failures
of others. We adapt useful features and try to avoid
some common pitfalls
* while developing Elmo, the main developer cares very much
for others' opinions and suggestions. If you request
a feature, there is a really good chance that it will
be implemented. And if it is useful for more than
one person, you can be sure of it.
* Elmo contains many other good things(tm) you will probably
not notice directly, like for instance an extremely efficient
implementation of hashing tables -- much better than in Mutt
and way above pine
* if you are a Mutt user -- don't worry, all useful
functionality of this excellent MUA will eventually find
its way into Elmo's codebase, although they may take a
different, more user-friendly (but even more flexible!) form
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