From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 24 05:47:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24991 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from login-2.eunet.no (0@login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24957 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 05:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) Received: from arwen.myst.no (pc37.bergen-pm2-1.eunet.no [193.75.12.44]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.9.0/8.9.0/GN) with ESMTP id OAA15102; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:46:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (hjv@localhost) by arwen.myst.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA00276; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:40:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) X-Authentication-Warning: arwen.myst.no: hjv owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:40:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Haavard Vaagstoel X-Sender: hjv@arwen.myst.no To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a tip - X equiv. of Eudora? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980623181617.007fe9c0@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Say, what's the best POP client for Email under X? Looking for something > similar to Eudora in Windows. Already found my favorite FTP client, > 'ftptool'... now I need something similar for Email in X. I'll hunt around > and try some different clients, but any tips? You will have to differ between POP clients and mail readers. Eudora is a combination -- a mail reader with its own POP client. In a Windows 95 environment, this is necessary because you don't have any (at least commonly you don't) mail delivery system (like Sendmail). Therefore, the mail reader has to get the mail itself -- putting it directly into its own message base. In a FreeBSD system, however, things are a little different. Though you have some mail readers that have their own POP clients (like Netscape mail), I believe it is more common to use a stand-alone POP client to retrieve your mail, thereby "putting it into" the local mail system. This way, it will appear just as local mail would. For a mail reader, I will suggest `Pine'. But by all means, there are a lot of different ones available. Check them out, if you please. Pine works for me. For a POP client, I will suggest `fetchmail'. There is another client included with my distribution (2.2.5), it's called `popclient'. I have never tried it, because fetchmail can do everything I want it to. Finally, none of these suggestions are running as X programs, though Pine works rather well in a xterm window. Fetchmail is a command line program (controlled by a .fetchmailrc file, or command line options), so a graphical interface is not really necessary. I doubt you will find any stand-alone pop client `under X'. -- Haavard Vaagstoel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message