From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 15:31:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fear.net (fear.net [207.180.208.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFC137B42C for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@fear.net) Received: from fear.net (matt@fear.net [207.180.208.7]) by fear.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21419; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:31:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:31:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Francois Kritzinger , freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: PINE -> checking for email In-Reply-To: <20010425172523.B75534@cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > 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. -- 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