Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)" <root@techyman.net> To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Cc: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What mail client do *you* use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980618111259.2608A-100000@techyman.net> In-Reply-To: <199806181125.MAA10293@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 And if ya dont want it fully ill tke the SS2 :P I use Pine, its a great emailer, with the exception of every time you want to look at the newsgroup lkist it has to download it again :/ - -TeChY - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Robert J. Lynn Jr. (TeChYMaN, TechyMan, rjlynn, TeChY) "What does rm -rf * do?" Owner/Operator Williamsport Computer Owner/Operator TeChYMaN's BSD Shells KidsWorld Sr. Helper On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Scott Mitchell wrote: > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNYkuuA2MC48AN/7zEQLi3gCfbGu/aleA8z5VKwe7ZjWGBo9PeeoAoJz4 UKw7hCMFi9+/huxgZRqXZjm4 =YVJC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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