Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:27:11 -0700 From: Doug Wellington <ddw@NSMA.Arizona.EDU> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2000 22:15:11 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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Previously: >Does someone have a better way to do this? I use mailagent to sort mail. (Similar to procmail, but uses perl.) I use nmh to read mail. It has the "pick" command which lets you pick a group of messages that you want to keep together, so if your incoming filter doesn't sort things the way you want, you can do it with pick. mailagent - http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/RAM nmh - http://www.mhost.com/nmh >Once nice feature in Netscape mail is that if I do filter mail into a >folder, it marks that folder so I know new messages were recently >deposited there. Can I do this with procmail and pine so that I can >organize my mail and know where I am getting new mail? Is there an >existing system? I do this with mailagent and nmh. There is a list of unread messages that can be updated for each folder... nmh is different - it's all command line. That way, you can type in some command, then at the next prompt type "show next" and you'll see the next message or type "scan" and you'll get a listing of the messages in your current folder, then you can type another shell command. You don't have to "start up" your mail reader, then exit from it, etc... If you want a pretty front end, check out exmh - it's written in TCL/TK and provides a nice graphical interface to nmh. (That way, you can use exmh when you're at the console and "vanilla" nmh when you're dialed in...) If you want to stick to a monolithic mail reader like pine, you might consider moving to mutt... -Doug -- Doug Wellington System and Network Administrator ddw@nsma.arizona.edu The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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