From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 16 20:16:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29553 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from presley.cybertrails.com (presley.cybertrails.com [162.42.150.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA29548 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kf7nn1@cybertrails.com) Received: (qmail 4672 invoked from network); 17 Jan 1999 04:15:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ginger) (162.42.132.1) by presley.cybertrails.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 1999 04:15:47 -0000 Message-ID: <001401be41d0$298a8720$0300a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com> From: "george vagner" To: "Ben Smithurst" Cc: Subject: Re: Fw: failure notice Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 21:16:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think we need a better explanation of the programs found in the ports collection because looking thru the list of ported software dont really tell you what the port can do or what its used for. example: MUTT the mongrel of mail user agents (part elm pine mh) this dont really tell me the features or anything so i might as well used elm or pine not knowing that the thing has filtering or anything else for that matter, or even if its a graphical program. I think there is alot more programs i am missing out on that are on the ports but i dont know anything about them. I have learned some of the better ones by trial and error. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Smithurst To: George Vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 5:32 PM Subject: Re: Fw: failure notice George Vagner wrote: > I havent found a mail program for freebsd that > has any configurable filters. Well, as Jim has said procmail can filter mail into different folders, etc. You could also look at Exim, which is a full replacement for sendmail, and has built in filtering options. (If you haven't used sendmail before, Exim may be easier to configure for you.) As for the mail client to use, I like Mutt. I used pine a while back, but found it wasn't powerful enough for me. procmail, exim and mutt are all in the ports collection under the "mail" category (oddly enough...) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message