mutt-ng development blog

Yesterday and today, I refactored a few bits of the POP3 support in mutt-ng, to significantly improve readability. The big problem that the original developer of the POP3 support for mutt made was that he used a lot of "magic numbers" for different states, without explaining what these values mean.

If you have some experience with mutt(-ng) and can write LaTeX, then consider helping Rocco Rutte with the official mutt-ng manual. It contains the same as the SGML version, but this time in more beautiful LaTeX.

I just got the notifcation that mutt-ng is now officially in the Gentoo portage tree. This is great news, as it will help raise the name recognition of mutt-ng.

GRML 0.3 is the first distribution to ship mutt-ng. GRML is a live CD based on Knoppix and Debian, targeted at system administrators and text tool users. It's definitely worth a try, and I always have a copy of it with me with my work notebook (although that's still an older version w/o mutt-ng :-/). The lead developer of GRML, Michael Prokop is also the one who contributed the wonderful grml-muttng script that dramatically simplifies the creation of new mutt-ng configuration files especially for new users.

Rocco Rutte started working on a new mutt-ng documentation with the focus on userfriendlyness and better structure than the old mutt documentation. Some parts have already been written, but most of the parts are still missing, so if you have some technical writing skills, and are interesting in contributing to a new and better documentation, don't hesitate to download the SGML source (LinuxDoc), add text where it is missing, and submit patches to Rocco.

The famous German weblog Der Schockwellenreiter is writing about mutt-ng. w00t!