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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 08:21:10 -0700
From:      philip@adhesivemedia.com (Philip Hallstrom)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: better than pine?
Message-ID:  <200005171530.IAA35126@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>

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>* Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> [000516 20:48] wrote:
>> I use pine to read all of the mail from this mailing list and the
>> freebsd-ipfw list.  Many messages come in and I have not filtered them to
>> another folder.  They all go to the Inbox.
>> 
>> Does someone have a better way to do this?
>> 
>> I do not want to use a pop3 client since I want to access the mail from a
>> telnet window where I can access it from anywhere.  But sometimes I get
>> mail that mixes into rest of the list emails and I may not read it and
>> must pass over it as I do not follow each thread.
>> 
>> Once nice feature in Netscape mail is that if I do filter mail into a
>> folder, it marks that folder so I know new messages were recently
>> deposited there.  Can I do this with procmail and pine so that I can
>> organize my mail and know where I am getting new mail?  Is there an
>> existing system?
>
>You can use procmail and mutt, procmail will sort your incoming mail
>and mutt will be able to monitor multiple mailboxes for you.
Pine can also watch multiple folders... geesh, can't find the option
now, but I know you can do it cause I used to do that... 



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