Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:59:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jmrobins@samurai.ruin.org Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171754200.91267-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <00051908403601.00353@freebsd.freebsd.org>
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I am actually on an iMac. I work on my freebsd server all day and prefer to simply use a text mail reader. If I get an attachement I save it to my home directory and view it with netscape ftp. It works well, but I am not told by pine when mail is dropped into one of the /home/user/mail/* folders. Why am I on an iMac? Because I need a desktop which I do not have to set up every step of the way. Perhaps when KDE 2.0 is out I can install NetBSD on here or Linux and run that. :) Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? On Fri, 19 May 2000, Danny wrote: > > Or what you can do is setup FreeBSD to have X. > Then use something like vnc so you can use telnet > Then use Netscape mail for FreeBSD > > But that not a good idea. > > On Wed, 17 May 2000, Brennan W Stehling 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? > > > > If I cannot find one, I may just create one. I currently use mail.filter > > (mailfilter) which does not have a feature which will drop mail to a > > folder based on filter rules. I may add the functionality. Then there is > > a matter of reporting where the mail goes. > > > > (This is email is also going to the author of mailfilter) > > > > I can have it update a log which can be used to generate a report with a > > simple script. It can tell me what filters were used since I last logged > > in and tell me where mail was routed so I know to check the > > freebsd-questions folder, for example. I could run that script from the > > .profile config file. > > > > Anyone have any ideas on this? Does pine support a feature like that and > > I am not aware of it? > > > > If I can get this working, I could join many more lists since it would > > help me keep them organized. > > > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > > > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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