Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:31:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" <matt@fear.net> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: Francois Kritzinger <ffkrz@iafrica.com>, freeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PINE -> checking for email Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104251728530.5761-100000@fear.net> In-Reply-To: <20010425172523.B75534@cec.wustl.edu>
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Or you can do like me, and have things the cool way. I used to use > fetchmail with mutt, but for some reason, fetchmail stopped working > with my server. Rather than dick around with the moron administrators > that always seem to work on university networks, I simply set up my > own mailserver, and got myself a free hostname from dyndns.org. They > give you an MX entry with that. This way, I just create a .forward on > the mail server, and enjoy local UNIX mail the way it was intended. :) Very ideal setup there. <grin> > PS: I would suggest you try out mutt, even if not for POP3. I used to > use pine, but mutt is much more configurable, and is all-around better > than pine. Not to start a Pine vs. Mutt war here, but Mutt may be the overall better mailer; however, the mail editor built in to Pine rocks. I haven't found anything better. I'm anal, I guess. I'd like to know if something better does exist, though -- but I feel like an old man (okay, I'm 24), and set in my ways with Pine. <old man frown> -- Matt Barton matt@fear.net Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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