Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:21:10 -0700 From: philip@adhesivemedia.com (Philip Hallstrom) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <200005171530.IAA35126@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>
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>* Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> [000516 20:48] wrote: >> I use pine to read all of the mail from this mailing list and the >> freebsd-ipfw list. Many messages come in and I have not filtered them to >> another folder. They all go to the Inbox. >> >> Does someone have a better way to do this? >> >> I do not want to use a pop3 client since I want to access the mail from a >> telnet window where I can access it from anywhere. But sometimes I get >> mail that mixes into rest of the list emails and I may not read it and >> must pass over it as I do not follow each thread. >> >> 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? > >You can use procmail and mutt, procmail will sort your incoming mail >and mutt will be able to monitor multiple mailboxes for you. Pine can also watch multiple folders... geesh, can't find the option now, but I know you can do it cause I used to do that... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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