From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 15:34:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3219C37B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B5CE7A89A; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:33:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:33:56 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" Cc: Francois Kritzinger , freeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: PINE -> checking for email Message-ID: <20010425173356.A486@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010425172523.B75534@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@fear.net on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:31:38PM -0400 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:31:38PM -0400, Thomas (Matt) Barton wrote: > 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. Well, the beauty of mutt is that you can use any editor you want. I have mine configured to use vim, wrap text at 72 characters, and do some extra stuff. If you're one of those punks who likes emacs, well, you can use that too. :p -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message