From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 19:14:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25801 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25796 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id TAA30618; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:14:19 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id TAA01996; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:03:57 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Joe McGuckin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What mail client do *you* use? In-Reply-To: <199806170542.WAA17213@monk.via.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote: >I'm getting ready to retire my creaky old Sun SS2. One problem though - >I'm addicted to mailtool. I need to find a functionally equivalant mail >client. > >It should save messages in standard mailbox format. Also, I understand >some clients have problems with file locking. I use procmail to sort incoming >messages into about 15 or 20 mailfolders. The mail client shouldn't require >any 'staging' folders for new messages, etc. > >Any suggestions? 'vm'/emacs looks interesting - any comments regarding >actual usage? I don't know anything about mailtool. I use pine and procmail to divvy up my mail between ten folders. I like pine's ability to pipe email through pgp. Pine is hyper documented. YMMV Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message