From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 8: 2:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9324414BEA for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:02:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 1299B6-00022W-00; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:02:20 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "James A Wilde" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail clients In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:31:28 +0100." <001f01bf5ea4$7fcc34c0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:02:19 +0200 Message-ID: <7843.947865739@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:31:28 +0100, "James A Wilde" wrote: > Without wishing to start a religious war, is there any clear recommendation > on which mail client a greenhorn should choose first. I haven't got the X > system fully configured yet so we're talking cli here. No. :-) Seriously, try both PINE and elm. I'm pretty sure that you'll stick with whichever one you get used to first. A word of caution -- I don't think PINE and elm store messages in a compatible way, so be careful about trying to use _both_ programs on the _same_ mail folders. Good luck! Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message