From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 21:32:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C88537B9F2 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:32:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA35375 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:32:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200007310432.XAA35375@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: the best MUA In-Reply-To: <20000728230213.V59315@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> from Ben Smithurst at "Jul 28, 2000 11:02:13 pm" To: ben@freebsd.org (Ben Smithurst) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:11:00 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-question@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst babbled: > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:02:13 +0100 > Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > On Fri 2000-07-28 (09:45), Sam Carleton wrote: > >> My main FreeBSD box is an island on the internet. Island in the respect > >> that there is no other computer on it's domain.com. It is my > >> web/dns/smtp server for the domain. To read email I have been using > >> Pine, but I was wondering if there are any better options out there? > >> Any recomendations? > > > > Mutt is very nice. /usr/ports/mail/mutt > > Seconded. I used to use Pine, but I switched to Mutt very soon after I > first tried it. Thirded. I switched to mutt from elm. It's not perfect, but it's the best I've tried. Of course, once you've been forced to live with cc:Mail for over a year ANY UNIX mailer looks pretty damn good. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message