From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 03:05:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D071F37B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 03:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F08043F85 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 03:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4TA56gD027068; Thu, 29 May 2003 19:35:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Paul Robinson , Robert Stickney Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 19:35:06 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200305282320.16367.stickney@ece.arizona.edu> <20030529094915.GU84666@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030529094915.GU84666@iconoplex.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305291935.06164.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preferred email system X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:05:22 -0000 On Thu, 29 May 2003 19:19, Paul Robinson wrote: > Mozilla. I would have said mutt for the above, but the "nice gui" thing > obviously negates mutt from your considerations, which is a shame. > > > shell interface to same email database for remote access > > Nasty. I actually don't use Mozilla so am not sure how it handles mail > spools. Instead I use mutt which does everything above so far except it > doesn't have a GUI. Plus it takes some work to get "just right" for your > own tastes, but for me, it rocks. :-) Run an IMAP server and use Mozilla/Mutt/SquirrelMail/whatever to access it. > > if possible share an address book (and with Palm Vx) > > Mutt uses a file called "aliases" in your home directory, the format of > which is easy enough to script up a parses for to whack it into your Palm. > I have no idea how Mozzy handles address books. You can share Mozilla address books to PalmOS I believe. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5