I compile complete distro install media for my obscure hipster source-based distro every single day. Just to make sure the build still works.
Uphill both ways!
^^^Shit, ^^^the ^^^32-bit ^^^build ^^^failed ^^^again.
Mutt is seriously better than most any other mail client.
MUTT:
EDIT::: The link above is a brief intro to getting started. You will need some more power with multiple senders and the siderbar patch
Lunar Linux. It's sort of halfway between a build-it-from-scratch distro like Gentoo and a distro with a package manager like Debian. It's been my main Linux distro for over a decade now, to the point where the crazy people who run it made me into a developer.
It's extremely open--anyone can submit package suggestions--and yet also nicely hard-core.
I'm running Lunar Linux. It's a great distro and you learn several things about the Gnu/Linux system (and i believe that is one step before Linux from scratch).
Just check it.
Wow Sorcerer and Source Mage are still active?
EDIT: it seems they are both active and so is Lunar Linux, which just shipped a new iso :O! http://www.lunar-linux.org/index.php/en/news-sections/67-announcements/70-lunar-linux-165-i686-a-x8664-isos-released.html
edit: 22 August.... 2010...
Lunar Linux (which I'm a dev for). It's got all of the sourciness and compile-everything-optimized-for-your-system-ness of Gentoo, keeps packages well up to date (or at least, as up to date as the handful of maintainers can keep up with), but also has a mechanism to make it easy for any user to submit their own modules or updates.
I liked Lunar Linux and SourceMage (both forks of the old Sorcerer Linux). Both are source-based distros and their package management is much less complicated than Gentoo. The only thing stopping me from using them as daily drivers was lack of community support (they have a small number of people working on it and I'm not an advanced linux user) and documentation.
It's a bit like Gentoo only that it's source-base, only it's more casually thrown together, and comes with a proper base OS installer. It's a minority distro made by a small group of developers, so odds are you'll end up making your own modules by the time you've gotten your machine up and running to your satisfaction.
Yeah, it's mutt with the sidebar patch (should be available in the AUR) and the setting pager_index_lines=10
, which leaves ten lines of the index visible after opening mails. I've tweaked a couple things over the years, but all the major settings were taken from Steve Losh's blog post The Homely Mutt and are pretty much unchanged.
I've never gotten around to putting my mail configs under version control and sharing them, 'cuz a) they never change; b) they consist of a half-dozen files that could contain sensitive info; and c) I only use them on one machine, so they're backed up in the only places that matter. The links above have pretty much everything I use, though.