Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:44:48 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209261642380.3275-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020926145659.02cffe48@mail.utexas.edu>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:38:35 -0500 > From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Wondering about mail clients (specific features) > > It is not my intention to start any religious wars about mail clients. I'm > currently using Eudora (stop, drop, roll and duck incoming slings and > arrows) on Windows. One feature I like is that when mail is received and > filtered into different mailboxes, you are told there is new mail in those > mailboxes. I subscribe to many different mailing lists and for the sake of > my sanity I filter incoming mail from each list into its own mailbox. I've > tried using pine with procmail and mail is filtered properly but I don't > know that there is new mail in mailboxes other than "In". > > Is there something I'm missing in pine that will do this? Are there other > mail clients that will notify you when new mail has been received and > placed in a mailbox other than "IN" ? > > > Oscar > > There are a bazillion utilities for X and each window manager that do email notification for different mailboxes, such as kbiff, xbiff, ... I used to use the wmbiff dock app in WindowMaker a lot, great little app. I'm a Pine user as well, dunno if/which other email clients provide this functionality. Kmail or Sylpheed? JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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