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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)" <root@techyman.net>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Cc:        Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What mail client do *you* use?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980618111259.2608A-100000@techyman.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806181125.MAA10293@hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>

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And if ya dont want it fully ill tke the SS2 :P
I use Pine, its a great emailer, with the exception of every time you want
to look at the newsgroup lkist it has to download it again :/ 
- -TeChY

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Robert J. Lynn Jr. (TeChYMaN, TechyMan, rjlynn, TeChY)
"What does rm -rf * do?"
Owner/Operator Williamsport Computer
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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Scott Mitchell wrote:

> Joe McGuckin said:
> >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?
> 
> VM uses Emacs' own peculiar file locking scheme, so you do need to use
> 'staging' folders to have it work with procmail.  Other than that it's
> quite good.
> 
> I'd recommend you take a look at mutt -- it does the locking properly, has
> a boatload of features and integrates nicely with PGP.  Text-based though,
> so you'd have to lose the nice mailtool GUI.
> 
> BTW, I hope you're not discarding the SS2 entirely.  They make great
> X-terminals (I'm writing this on an ancient IPC running NetBSD).
> 
> 	Scott.
> 
> -- 
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