From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 11 16: 5:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C20E37B417; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAC04uS44783; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:34:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011111182252.CYX10845.femail7.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:34:54 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Paul Murphy Subject: Re: Good Mail Programs Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeremy Karlson , John Baldwin Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-Nov-2001 Paul Murphy wrote: > > xfmail, but beware that it does have its share of bugs and you can make it > > crash without trying to hard. :( > > In other words it's a BAD mail program :) Well, the problem is that it has some very useful features, and it is simple to setup. For example, it handles multipe incoming folders, and gives you a sum of the total unread messages properly. It can also change From address on a per folder basis (but easily allow you to override that per email) which is great when you read more than one inbox (eg work/home). I have heard people claim great things about Mutt, but it seems to take a while to configure, and I haven't been bothered trying to configure it since xfmail isn't that bad :) (And mutt doesn't look nice out of the box) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message