From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 17: 2:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.one.net (mail2.one.net [206.112.192.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0851237BB6C for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carleton@one.net) Received: from ztown2-2-53.adsl.one.net ([216.23.15.53] EHLO miltonstreet.com ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 272]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <364253-31885>; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:02:13 -0400 Message-ID: <39821F2E.3822D0AE@miltonstreet.com> From: Sam Carleton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: the best MUA References: <14721.62042.360841.509529@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:02:09 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > From: Marc van Woerkom > > > To read email I have been using > > > Pine, but I was wondering if there are any better options out there? > > > Any recomendations? > > Emacs is bloated er.. a meta operating system and offers a spartanic > > mail mode ('rmail'/'mail') and an advanced one hidden in its main news > > reader 'gnus'. > > To add to the "meta operating system" comment - there are also MUA's > in emacs that interact with mh (the emacs of MUAs), and a very > advanced one called VM. Which - if any - are bundled with your emacs > will depend on the distribution. Personally, I use VM, the qmail > redirection facilities, and fetchmail.But I wouldn't advice anyone to > look at the emacs mail readers unless they were already using emacs. Amen to that. I have the O'Reilly book on emacs, read it a few times, but it never sat right with me:) I understand that it is a very powerful editor, but I finally gave in, and bought the vi book. I am now an vi user:) > However, this question has as deep a religious character as the > question about "best editor", and is best left that way. I believe deeply religious is an understatement:) Until I asked, though I only knew of pine:) I am going to try mutt, and I might even try emacs:) -- Sam Carleton Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and help my local police force! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message