From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 4:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (adsl-63-192-209-55.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.192.209.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FFE37BB0A for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:12:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E04BA1A8; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:11:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:11:37 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Mauricio Westendorff Pegoraro Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: E-mail client Message-ID: <20000317041137.A700@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: <38D21EEE.7151A4C4@pucrs.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i In-Reply-To: <38D21EEE.7151A4C4@pucrs.br>; from mwp@pucrs.br on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:02:54AM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message