From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 13:52:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-074.telepath.com [216.14.0.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EAEC37B72B for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:52:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 35556 invoked by uid 100); 28 Jul 2000 20:51:38 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14721.62042.360841.509529@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:51:38 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the best MUA In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Marc van Woerkom > > To read email I have been using > > Pine, but I was wondering if there are any better options out there? > > Any recomendations? > Emacs is bloated er.. a meta operating system and offers a spartanic > mail mode ('rmail'/'mail') and an advanced one hidden in its main news > reader 'gnus'. To add to the "meta operating system" comment - there are also MUA's in emacs that interact with mh (the emacs of MUAs), and a very advanced one called VM. Which - if any - are bundled with your emacs will depend on the distribution. Personally, I use VM, the qmail redirection facilities, and fetchmail.But I wouldn't advice anyone to look at the emacs mail readers unless they were already using emacs. However, this question has as deep a religious character as the question about "best editor", and is best left that way.