any possibility of Mutt (or Mutt-like) for Android?

[Jim Graham]

As the subject line says...is there ay possibility of either
a direct port of Mutt, or at least something similar, for the
Android?

I'm not sure if this qualifies as an absurd question or not....
(I'm thinking it probably is, but I've been surprised enough
times now with Android apps that mimic or are direct ports of
both Unix and M$ progams that it's at least worth asking....)

And while on the subject, is there any relatinship at all
between Mutt and K-9 e-mail on Android? They aren't really
similar at all, but still...just wondering, based only on the
names....

Later,
--jim

[Ray Van Dolson]

Post by Jim Graham
As the subject line says...is there ay possibility of either
a direct port of Mutt, or at least something similar, for the
Android?
I'm not sure if this qualifies as an absurd question or not....
(I'm thinking it probably is, but I've been surprised enough
times now with Android apps that mimic or are direct ports of
both Unix and M$ progams that it's at least worth asking....)
And while on the subject, is there any relatinship at all
between Mutt and K-9 e-mail on Android? They aren't really
similar at all, but still...just wondering, based only on the
names....
Later,
--jim

Man, that sounds pretty painful. mutt is so keyboard dependent and
unless you had a physical keyboard on your Android device, the mutt
folks would have to do a lot of interface work.

I use mutt via SSH from my Droid 1 (phys keyboard). It's decent, but
using vi on it is not a pleasant experience :)

Probably getting it to just _build_ would be easier to tackle and could
be run from some native terminal app. Interested to hear about it if
you give it a shot.

Ray

[Jim Graham]

Post by Ray Van Dolson
Man, that sounds pretty painful. mutt is so keyboard dependent and
unless you had a physical keyboard on your Android device, the mutt
folks would have to do a lot of interface work.

True...hadn't thought about that.

Post by Ray Van Dolson
I use mutt via SSH from my Droid 1 (phys keyboard). It's decent, but
using vi on it is not a pleasant experience :)

OUCH! Yeah, that settles it...not a good idea at all.

Post by Ray Van Dolson
Probably getting it to just _build_ would be easier to tackle and could
be run from some native terminal app. Interested to hear about it if
you give it a shot.

It would have to be done in java plus the Android SDK. That's the
main reason why I thought it might just be an absurd idea.... Add
the pain trying to use vi (or vim, for me), and I was right about
it being a completely absurd idea.

I guess I should just hope that someone who knows far more about
Android development than I do might add threading, lists, and so on,
to K-9.

Oh well...never mind. :-)

Later,
--jim

[Richard]

Post by Jim Graham
It would have to be done in java plus the Android SDK. That's the
main reason why I thought it might just be an absurd idea.... Add
the pain trying to use vi (or vim, for me), and I was right about
it being a completely absurd idea.

it is possible to write native apps in c as well, though the libs are
not exactly full libc.

Using vim.. I recall folks have ported vi or vim to one of the early ipods
and I can hardly imagine anything geekier short of using vim on a morse
terminal.
But perhaps you could fall back to one of the Android editors for the
boring stuff like actually writing the emails.

Richard

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Post by Richard
Using vim.. I recall folks have ported vi or vim to one of the early
ipods and I can hardly imagine anything geekier short of using vim on
a morse terminal.

I regularly use mutt/vim via connectbot (ssh client) on an android
phone, equipped with a physical keyboard, and it's not *that* bad. Vim
being modal, thumb-typing works ok; all you need is a way to send Escape
and maybe Ctrl once in a while.

It ain't the most ergonomic way to work, but I'm pretty sure EMACS would
be worse :)

Makes me think, is there a patch somewhere or plans to make it possible
to get multi-line mailbox index entries in mutt? With very narrow
terminals (40 columns or such) it'd be something useful and even on a
regular 80-column term I'd surely prefer having the mail subject on its
own line.


Thanks,

[William Yardley]

Post by Ray Van Dolson
I use mutt via SSH from my Droid 1 (phys keyboard). It's decent, but
using vi on it is not a pleasant experience :)

I've been doing the same thing occasionally on an ipad (only over
wireless, though). Works Ok, but yeah... vi is no fun.

Also, using phone service instead of wireless, the latency is usually
pretty bad with the mobile terminal clients I've seen (obviously not as
much of a problem if the client were running locally).

w