Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:25:13 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What mail client do *you* use? Message-ID: <199806181125.MAA10293@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <24898442@toto.iv>
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Joe McGuckin said: >I'm getting ready to retire my creaky old Sun SS2. One problem though - >I'm addicted to mailtool. I need to find a functionally equivalant mail >client. > >It should save messages in standard mailbox format. Also, I understand >some clients have problems with file locking. I use procmail to sort incoming >messages into about 15 or 20 mailfolders. The mail client shouldn't require >any 'staging' folders for new messages, etc. > >Any suggestions? 'vm'/emacs looks interesting - any comments regarding >actual usage? VM uses Emacs' own peculiar file locking scheme, so you do need to use 'staging' folders to have it work with procmail. Other than that it's quite good. I'd recommend you take a look at mutt -- it does the locking properly, has a boatload of features and integrates nicely with PGP. Text-based though, so you'd have to lose the nice mailtool GUI. BTW, I hope you're not discarding the SS2 entirely. They make great X-terminals (I'm writing this on an ancient IPC running NetBSD). Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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