From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 7:18:31 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 7ABCE37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:18:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0413E43E91 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9AEITa22887; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:18:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210101418.g9AEITa22887@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Mail client preferred? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:18:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bastill@sa.apana.org.au In-Reply-To: <200210100850.g9A8oCgE039709@lurza.secnetix.de> from "Oliver Fromme" at Oct 10, 2002 10:50:12 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > 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 transfer > > Kmail message files to the console client. > > I guess 90% of the people would recommend mutt. > > Personally, I've been using elm for 12 years and still > haven't seen a reason to switch over to mutt, but that's > just me ... :-) > I use ELM for general reading and sending messages. It seems to be easiest for the simple, straightforward stuff. But, I use PINE for saving off attachments and MUTT for looking at stuff in funny character sets. And, I do all this on a Solaris system via an X running on a FreeBSD machine. Sheeesh. Anyway, try a few things and see what works for you. ////jerry > Regards > Oliver > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message