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From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
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Subject: Re: Best mail for threaded majordomo reading?
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:10:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Ollivier Robert:
 |According to Dan Janowski:
 |> What are you guys using? I am using netscape
 |> mail which does threading and mbox-es nicely, but
 |> it has some annoying deficiencies. What is a
 |> good way of auto-processing all the mail into
 |> separate mbox-es, i.e. put list mail somewhere
 |> different than "regular" mail?
 |
 |Don't look any further:
 |
 |1. procmail (see /usr/ports/mail/procmail) will dispatch your mail in
 |   various mailboxes (I can send you privately my procmail entries for the
 |   FreeBSD lists) ;
 |
 |2. Mutt[1] will enable you to real mail with threads (as I do) nicely. It
 |   has very good PGP and MIME support.
 |   It is not an X11 program though.

To throw my 2 cents in...

I'm using ELM's filter instead of procmail.  Much nicer filter file syntax,
through procmails is more flexible.  procmail is more stable as well --
will probably convert over to that when we upgrade out mail machine here.

Using ELM to read threaded mail.  Just change the sort order to By Subject
whenever I pull up one of my freebsd mail folders (e.g =fbsdcurr.ml.new),
but it works fine.  Will eventually convert to mutt -- lots of nice
features (color highlighting, better MIME attachments, better PGP support,
etc.).  Was somewhat unstable though when I tried it a few weeks back, but
its coming along fast.

Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com