Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:39:13 +1000 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jmrobins@samurai.ruin.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <00051908403601.00353@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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Or what you can do is setup FreeBSD to have X. Then use something like vnc so you can use telnet Then use Netscape mail for FreeBSD But that not a good idea. On Wed, 17 May 2000, Brennan W Stehling 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? > > If I cannot find one, I may just create one. I currently use mail.filter > (mailfilter) which does not have a feature which will drop mail to a > folder based on filter rules. I may add the functionality. Then there is > a matter of reporting where the mail goes. > > (This is email is also going to the author of mailfilter) > > I can have it update a log which can be used to generate a report with a > simple script. It can tell me what filters were used since I last logged > in and tell me where mail was routed so I know to check the > freebsd-questions folder, for example. I could run that script from the > .profile config file. > > Anyone have any ideas on this? Does pine support a feature like that and > I am not aware of it? > > If I can get this working, I could join many more lists since it would > help me keep them organized. > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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