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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:11:37 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>
To:        Mauricio Westendorff Pegoraro <mwp@pucrs.br>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: E-mail client
Message-ID:  <20000317041137.A700@luna.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <38D21EEE.7151A4C4@pucrs.br>; from mwp@pucrs.br on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:02:54AM -0300
References:  <38D21EEE.7151A4C4@pucrs.br>

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 at 09:02:54 -0300, Mauricio Westendorff Pegoraro wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I'm changing my workstations to FreeBSD only, baning NT from all of
> them. I've successfully installed and tested WindowMaker, StarOffice and
> other stuff. The only thing I need now is a good, friendly and reliable
> e-mail client. I tried to use StarOffice, but its "philosophy" is too
> different from the e-mail client used in my NT workstations. Changing to
> it will cause an overhead in trainning the staff, and I don't have much
> more time to get all these things working. I've tried Nestcape, but
> there were some bugs in FreeBSD (sometimes crashed, sometimes filters
> didn't work at all). I'm looking for an FreeBSD e-mail client wich
> doesn't crash and works correctly, an e-mail client with filters and
> other facilities.
> So, I ask you, gentlemen of FreeBSD-questions list, wich e-mail client
> would you advice to use?
> 
> Thanks for your considerations and thoughts.

If you're looking for something X-based, take a look at xfmail.  It's in
/usr/ports/mail/xfmail.  If you're not picky and will run a console
client in an xterm, go with mutt and use procmail for filtering.  I've
been using them for ages now and it'd take *a lot* to get me to switch
to something else :-)  Both mutt and procmail are in /usr/ports/mail as
well.

- jim

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