Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:25:33 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features) Message-ID: <20020927132533.GB7455@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020926145659.02cffe48@mail.utexas.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020926145659.02cffe48@mail.utexas.edu>
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On 09/26/02 03:38 PM, Oscar Ricardo Silva sat at the `puter and typed: > It is not my intention to start any religious wars about mail clients. I'm > currently using Eudora (stop, drop, roll and duck incoming slings and > arrows) on Windows. One feature I like is that when mail is received and > filtered into different mailboxes, you are told there is new mail in those > mailboxes. I subscribe to many different mailing lists and for the sake of > my sanity I filter incoming mail from each list into its own mailbox. I've > tried using pine with procmail and mail is filtered properly but I don't > know that there is new mail in mailboxes other than "In". > > Is there something I'm missing in pine that will do this? Are there other > mail clients that will notify you when new mail has been received and > placed in a mailbox other than "IN" ? > > > Oscar > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 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 ԿԬ Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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