From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 13:45: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFC737B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030B643E75 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 05AEE4FC98; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:44:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007BA4A0D; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:44:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:44:48 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features) In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020926145659.02cffe48@mail.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:38:35 -0500 > From: Oscar Ricardo Silva > 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