Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:59:18 +1000 From: "Andrew Reilly" <reilly@zeta.org.au> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@esys.ca>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Imap4 Message-ID: <19980827155918.A4988@reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <s9uaf4rpjxk.fsf@lautrec.esys.ca>; from Lyndon Nerenberg on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:28:07PM -0600 References: <199808260132.SAA29380@usr04.primenet.com> <09:51:27> <am> <SIMEON.9808261053.E18812@warhol.esys.ca> <199808261935.MAA04559@austin.polstra.com> <s9uaf4rpjxk.fsf@lautrec.esys.ca>
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On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:28:07PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Sorry Lyndon, I didn't see John's original message until you quoted it... > >>>>> "John" == John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> writes: > > John> What I want is a reasonable IMAP4 _client_ that runs under > John> FreeBSD. "Reasonable" in my book means that the client > John> fully supports disconnected operation, a requirement not met > John> by any of the Unix clients I'm aware of. (Maybe pine > John> supports it, but it's unreasonable for other reasons. :-) In what sense does TkRat not support disconnected operation? I honestly don't know, since I use it with a local qmail/fetchmail spool, but it certainly builds with an enormous gob of IMAP (and SMTP) know-how in it, and you can specify mail folders as file, mh, database (tkrat's own), IMAP, POP3 or dynamic (a directory of files). These seem to be happy to access usenet postings as well as mail, but I only use that feature for reading messages I save from knews. It's in the ports collection. I still use a bunch of tools for mail, though: Elm's filter for sorting mailing lists (old habit: I should change to procmail), fetchmail for accessing my ISP's imap box, qmail for local delivery, mailsmtp for off-site delivery to my ISP, mutt for reading mailing lists (at least until tkrat learns about threading), knews for news. You're not looking for a single client that will do all of these things, are you? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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