Thanks Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho for your follow up on my blog entry.

The “nice folder overview” is pretty useless IMHO. At least with maildir i can’t see any marker showing me the number of unread mails. it does only show me a single “N” for new mails. Which aren’t “new” for a long time, since evolution moves them to “unread” automatically.

(BTW: pressing tab three times gives me the same result as pressing it once)

As for the “modal” thing. I wouldn’t call it modal. Modal is what i call editing in vi. I would it call “single-tasked”. Not too untypical for a console program.

I have less trouble with that behaviour. I know my keys to “postpone” a message, and i can just run a second mutt instance, too.

In fact what i really like about mutt is that i can use vim for editing. I can’t think of any sane way to have a proper vim in mutt and have the possibility to read mail at the same time as i’m composing one.