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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:34:54 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Paul Murphy <pnmurphy1@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeremy Karlson <karlj000@unbc.ca>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Good Mail Programs
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011112103454.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011111182252.CYX10845.femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>

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On 11-Nov-2001 Paul Murphy wrote:
> > xfmail, but beware that it does have its share of bugs and you can make it
> > crash without trying to hard. :(
>  
>  In other words it's a BAD mail program :)

Well, the problem is that it has some very useful features, and it is simple to
setup.

For example, it handles multipe incoming folders, and gives you a sum of the
total unread messages properly. It can also change From address on a per folder
basis (but easily allow you to override that per email) which is great when you
read more than one inbox (eg work/home).

I have heard people claim great things about Mutt, but it seems to take a while
to configure, and I haven't been bothered trying to configure it since xfmail
isn't that bad :)
(And mutt doesn't look nice out of the box)

---
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

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