From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 13:46:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F4637B425 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5869243E91 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 5211 invoked by uid 0); 10 Oct 2002 20:46:15 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 20:46:14 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021010154601.02e564f8@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:46:16 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features) In-Reply-To: <20020927132533.GB7455@keyslapper.org> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020926145659.02cffe48@mail.utexas.edu> <5.1.0.14.2.20020926145659.02cffe48@mail.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I see there are already a few mutt recommendations, so I'll just quote >the mutt.org site: 'All mail agents suck. This one just sucks less.' >And that is true. Mutt is by far the most flexible and malleable MUA >I've found, and I've actually started forgetting the little details >about Netscapes MUA that you learn little by little over years of use. > >I use cyrus imapd as my server, procmail to filter crap, and just >create a mailbox for each list or account I want to manage. I have >one for my work email, which I then fetch from my employers pop server >using fetchmail, same with attbi email. I also create a box for each >mail list I subscribe to, then just subscribe as >leblanc+@keyslapper.org. When a message comes in, cyrus >puts it into the folder with that name. Mutt simply handles it as a >series of folders, and as a previous poster mentioned, you can >configure mutt to tell you which folders to monitor for new messages. >You can also tell mutt which email addresses you consider lists, so it >can handle a list reply properly. With the correct patches, mutt can >also read newsgroups, though I've recently fallen off the NGs and >stopped building with them. > >I also use gbuffy (similar to xbiff, found in the ports) to create a >little bar at the bottom of my screen. Create one entry for each >folder I want to monitor, and as mail comes in, it tells me how many >unseen messages are in each. Pretty slick. > >Mutt will also connect to cyrus via imaps (secure imap connection). >Gbuffy won't, but it only reads the From: and Subject: headers. > >Ok, I did a little more than just quote the mutt.org site, but you get >the picture. Some of the stuff I do just can't be done on Windoze - >without a whole lot more work porting recent versions to cygwin and >jumping through twice as many hoops. > >Good luck, HTH >Lou >-- >Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org >Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) >http://www.keyslapper.org =D4=BF=D4=AC Thanks for the information. From all the responses I received looks like=20 I'll be going with mutt. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message