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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:17:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Cc:        Jim Flournoy <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Good mail client?
Message-ID:  <20011018050940.K63337-100000@big>
In-Reply-To: <20011017224545.A19431@polands.org>

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Doug Poland wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:35:08PM -0700, Jim Flournoy wrote:
> >
> > > Your MUA wraps computer output and also wraps quoted
> > > text incorrectly.
> >
> > I'm sick of using webmail in windows.  Can anyone
> > recommend a good text-based (no X!) mail client that
> > will work with yahoo's webmail?  (pop3)  I'm using
> > Freebsd 4.3.  I apropos'ed "email client" but nothing
> > turned up.  Thank you.
> >
>
> mutt rules
Not on my console. I prefer pine.
It is as fast as lightning, when you set the arrow-keys to
lynx-like motion.
mutt is for people who like emacs :-)

Anyway: neither mutt nor pine can fetch their mail from a
POP3 account themselves. You need an additional utility
called "fetchmail"


Regards,

Uli.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Doug
>
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