Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:44:06 +0200 From: Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org> To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mail client preferred? Message-ID: <200210101044.10660.lauri@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <200210101723.53398.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> References: <200210101723.53398.bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 09.53, Brian Astill wrote: > Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. > Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? > I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transf= er > Kmail message files to the console client. There's nothing really to transfer. KMail writes perfectly normal messages= =20 files, in either maildir or mbox format (configurable in it's options.) If= =20 you use it's default maildir format, mutt will happily use them without=20 change. If you already had mbox format mail folders, then mutt or pine wil= l=20 use them without configuration. I don't know if pine speaks maildir, I don= 't=20 use it myself. =20 You might have to link KMail's default ~/Mail to ~/mail You should always take care about using multiple mail clients at the same t= ime=20 on the same mail folders (I mean literally at the same time, with both open= =2E) =20 I've used KMail over imap for ages, and if it's not available, ssh and pine= ,=20 or webmail (Squirrelmail) if ssh isn't even convenient. One mail folder,=20 multiple clients from multiple locations, no problems. =20 Regards, =2D --=20 Lauri Watts KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9pT3W/gUyA7PWnacRAo73AJ4jSEUM1vVZoDEmV34+v0HlPKnIRwCfToL2 rwhzZKege/I1iZfatYMxbNk=3D =3D9Jz8 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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