Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:46:16 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20021010154601.02e564f8@mail.utexas.edu> 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>
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>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+<mailbox-name>@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
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