Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:32:14 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <199706231532.BAA01528@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jun 1997 03:55:51 EST." <19970622035551.40140@peeper.my.domain>
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> > If you want a very good gui e-mail system, try xfmail (/usr/ports again). > > > > Watch out with xfmail. It converts your mail to the mh variety, and I ended > up loosing a bunch of mail from accidental deletion :( That can happen with any new mail system. I've changed enough to appreciate this. :-) As for mh format, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I used to dread the thought of going anywhere near it until I ran up exmh and decided it might be worth the (in my view then) sacrifice of using 1 file per message rather than the more traditional folders. Now I wished I had done it years ago. xfmail is nice, but I still haven't found better than exmh for functionality. mh in general is really good once you get used to the different methods. Incidently, mutt users can read mh folders too. I still use it when I don't have X running and I couldn't be bothered running up emacs just to read mail - and mutt is perhaps the best available textmode mail reader out there at the moment and still rapidly improving on itself. UW's imap v4.x servers also understand mh folders for those wanting imap support (this fact is actually what sold me on converting to mh as I often need to remotely access mail from OS/2, for example). One major problem using mh solved for me was the reduction in risk to mail when accessing it over nfs. Having an organised hierarchy of folders rather than a flat set of save files is another, not to mention being able to link mail items into multiple categories without multiple copies. Used with a good indexing package like, say, glimpse, retrieving important items is very very easy. Not that I'd recommend any of this to the casual mail user, since I'm hardly in that category. :-) Regards, David David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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