From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 15:19: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1504314F31 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (from gjvc@localhost) by extremis.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA04718; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:24:58 GMT (envelope-from gjvc) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:24:57 +0000 From: George Cox To: James A Wilde Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail clients Message-ID: <20000115132457.A4684@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <001f01bf5ea4$7fcc34c0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <001f01bf5ea4$7fcc34c0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>; from james.wilde@telia.com on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:31:28PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14/01 16:31, James A Wilde wrote: > Without wishing to start a religious war, is there any clear recommendation > on which mail client a greenhorn should choose first. I haven't got the X > system fully configured yet so we're talking cli here. I like to use mutt for mail with vim as my editor, because they both have colour, and are infinitely customisable. (If you want example dotfiles drop me a note) More information is available at each project's web site (http:///www.vim.org and http://www.mutt.org) Both are in the ports tree. cd /usr/ports/editors/vim5 && make install cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt && make install best; gjvc -- [gjvc] 4.4BSD 4.ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message