From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 02:49:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4926C37B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 02:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk (hannibal.servitor.co.uk [195.188.15.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FEF43F3F for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 02:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@hannibal.servitor.co.uk) Received: from paul by hannibal.servitor.co.uk with local (Exim 4.14) id 19LK27-000OOZ-H6; Thu, 29 May 2003 10:49:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:49:15 +0100 From: Paul Robinson To: Robert Stickney Message-ID: <20030529094915.GU84666@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <200305282320.16367.stickney@ece.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305282320.16367.stickney@ece.arizona.edu> Sender: Paul Robinson cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preferred email system X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:49:12 -0000 On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:20:16PM -0700, Robert Stickney wrote: > robust sorting system Mozilla > some intelligent way to deal with spam Mozilla > nice GUI for use in XFree86 Mozilla. I would have said mutt for the above, but the "nice gui" thing obviously negates mutt from your considerations, which is a shame. > shell interface to same email database for remote access Nasty. I actually don't use Mozilla so am not sure how it handles mail spools. Instead I use mutt which does everything above so far except it doesn't have a GUI. Plus it takes some work to get "just right" for your own tastes, but for me, it rocks. :-) > if possible share an address book (and with Palm Vx) Mutt uses a file called "aliases" in your home directory, the format of which is easy enough to script up a parses for to whack it into your Palm. I have no idea how Mozzy handles address books. > a good calendar system (links with Palm Vx - have jPilot installed) Doesn't the calendar stuff in KDE do that? I don't have a Palm, so never considered it, but I'm sure I saw somewhere.... > later it might be nice to add web email as a remote option. Better off using your ISPs webmail, but then it all comes down to where does the MX for your domain point to, how do you collect mail at the moment, how would you like to collect it in the future, and so on... the advantage to 'nix (not just FreeBSD) is you can do anything you want, any way you want. Unless it's USB and FireWire voodoo in which case you might not be able to. :-) > Any suggestions would be help full. If anybody has done anything similar it > would be nice to know how you did it. We *all* have e-mail, and we all have preferences as to how it should be done... > PPS. Sent this message to both Chat and Newbies to get different perspectives. And as cross-posting is stupid, I've only followed up to -chat. -- Paul Robinson