Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:40:57 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config for POP3 mail Message-ID: <3B294B89.48CD337D@iowna.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614221359.02130750@mail.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20010614234835.02126ef8@mail.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20010615002135.03f5dba0@mail.cz>
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Cynic wrote: > Well... To make myself clear, I just describe my mail usage pattern > (on NT), because that's what I'm used to, and basically I'm looking > for a FreeBSD solution that will mimick it as closely as possible: > > My workstation is on basically non-stop. I use Eudora for fetching, > reading, composing, and sending mail. It runs all the time. It checks > for, fetches, and filters new email from my POP3 accounts into local > folders every 3 minutes. I'm subscribed to a variety of mailing lists, > of which several are as busy as this one. 170 -- 230 messages a day > means that without regular vacuuing, my primary account (the one I'm > sending this from) would fill up withing a few days (it's only 10M), > and having all the mail in a single inbox would make it impossible to > handle. > > So... I'm looking for a set of tools that will make me feel at home > as much as possible. So far it looks like: fetchmail/getmail to > retrieve and filter (could be done by procmail, right?) incoming > messages, Pine/Mutt/whatever to read, compose, and further process > the messages once they're here (like moving them from one folder to > another one, forwarding, you get the idea), and sendmail (or alike) to > send outgoing messages to my SMTP servers. Since you put it that way, check out a number of advanced MUAs that are available through the ports. Many of them include the 1/2 MTA I described (that can send mail for you withoug a real MTA being installed/configured) and include filtering, multiple mailboxes, etc. Off the top of my head, balsa and evolution promise a nice feature set. There are others. Unfortunately, I can't recommend any of these because I've never found one that I liked/could get working well. But you may do better to look down that avenue. -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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