From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 10:29:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from illiad.adhesivemedia.com (illiad.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273B137BC6E for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@illiad.adhesivemedia.com) Received: (from philip@localhost) by illiad.adhesivemedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA36105; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip) Message-Id: <200005171730.KAA36105@illiad.adhesivemedia.com> From: philip@adhesivemedia.com (Philip Hallstrom) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:03:18 -0700 Subject: Re: better than pine? X-Mailer: Tiny NNTPD v0.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20000517211941.A82414@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> >> 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? Yeah, that's it... thanks. >It doesn't seem to alert you (with a beep) when you get new mail, which No, it doesn't, but if you hit tab, or maybe "n" for next message and there are none in the current inbox, it will check the next one and ask if you want to read those... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message