From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 2 5: 5:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cecov.masternet.it (cecov.masternet.it [194.184.65.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D4637B400 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 05:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from usul.scotty.masternet.it (modem29.masternet.it [194.184.65.224]) by cecov.masternet.it (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g12D8i358628 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 14:08:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020202140319.014338e8@194.184.65.7> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.7 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:05:16 +0100 To: chat@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: email, email, email, :-( In-Reply-To: <20020202101420.V94058-100000@bossen.myhome.my> References: <3C5BA9B8.7070606@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02/02/2002, you wrote: > > I am dissatisfied with the gui mail clients. Netscape6 mail does > > everything I desire but is slower than a slug. I've tried at least 8 or > > 10, maybe more, other gui mail clients from the ports and none of them > > contain all the features of netscape mail but they are all faster. Some > > won't install at all, some won't connect to my isp's pop server (some > > will), some are missing too many desired features auto-downloading > > messages and filtering. > > So, with that said, I installed Pine and Procmail. I've used Pine a bit > > in the past at the University, so I am familiar with it. What do I need > > a pretty gui for anyway, right? I thought procmail could download my > > email from my isp's pop server, but don't see how. Maybe I need another > > app yet? > > What do some of you guys use, to download, filter, and read your mail > > from so many mail lists? > > > >Procmail is, of what I know, only a filter to separate mails >into given files. I use fetchamil to get the mail, procmail >sort them into different files, then I use Pine to read them. I am using kmail at work, and it works fine. It has filters and doesn't required anything else to run (except kde itself :-) If you don't have a GUI you can use mutt+fetchmail+procmail ... Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message