From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 8:50:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E4A237B61F for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 08:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 82441 invoked by uid 211); 17 May 2000 15:49:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:19:41 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000517211941.A82414@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Philip Hallstrom , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200005171530.IAA35126@illiad.adhesivemedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005171530.IAA35126@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>; from philip@adhesivemedia.com on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:21:10AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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... The incoming-folders option in .pinerc? It doesn't seem to alert you (with a beep) when you get new mail, which I would have thought is the whole point. That's one reason I switched to mutt. The other is that mutt can display mail in "threads", very nicely, that's very useful with mailing lists. Of course mutt has a huge number of other advantages, it's almost infinitely configurable if you're willing to sit down and read through the various config options. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message