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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:32:54 -0400
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jim Flournoy" <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Good mail client?
Message-ID:  <20011018213416.44E2E37B408@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:17:07 +0000 (GMT), P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Doug Poland wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:35:08PM -0700, Jim Flournoy wrote:
>> >
>> > > Your MUA wraps computer output and also wraps quoted
>> > > text incorrectly.
>> >
>> > I'm sick of using webmail in windows.  Can anyone
>> > recommend a good text-based (no X!) mail client that
>> > will work with yahoo's webmail?  (pop3)  I'm using
>> > Freebsd 4.3.  I apropos'ed "email client" but nothing
>> > turned up.  Thank you.
>> >
>>
>> mutt rules
>Not on my console. I prefer pine.
>It is as fast as lightning, when you set the arrow-keys to
>lynx-like motion.
>mutt is for people who like emacs :-)
>
>Anyway: neither mutt nor pine can fetch their mail from a
>POP3 account themselves. You need an additional utility
>called "fetchmail"

pine will fetch pop3 mail..  you just have to put in on the config line
ie  mail.youserver.com/pop3/user=username


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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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