From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 2: 7:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D0C37B404 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mandarin.fruitsalad.org (pc117.net160.koping.net [81.16.160.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925EC43E9E for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lauri@kde.org) Received: from [192.168.15.151] (helo=192.168.15.151) by mandarin.fruitsalad.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17zZI1-0003a2-00; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:07:29 +0200 From: Lauri Watts To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au, FreeBSD Mailing Lists Subject: Re: Mail client preferred? Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:44:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.7 References: <200210101723.53398.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <200210101723.53398.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210101044.10660.lauri@kde.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =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