Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:18:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bastill@sa.apana.org.au Subject: Re: Mail client preferred? Message-ID: <200210101418.g9AEITa22887@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200210100850.g9A8oCgE039709@lurza.secnetix.de> from "Oliver Fromme" at Oct 10, 2002 10:50:12 AM
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> > Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> 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
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