From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 4:35:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net [209.58.140.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918BD37B403 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 04:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (leblanc.mirrorimage.net [209.192.210.146]) by mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00515 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:35:34 -0400 Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by leblanc.mirrorimage.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9IBa5w27795 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:36:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from leblanc) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:36:05 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good mail client? Message-ID: <20011018073604.A27694@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011017224545.A19431@polands.org> <20011018050940.K63337-100000@big> <20011018082501.A460@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20011018082501.A460@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-bright-idea: Lets abolish HTML mail! 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 On 10/18/01 08:25 AM, Rogier Steehouder sat at the `puter and typed: > On 18-10-2001 05:17 (+0000), P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote: > > Not on my console. I prefer pine. > > It is as fast as lightning, when you set the arrow-keys to > > lynx-like motion. > > mutt is for people who like emacs :-) > > I beg to differ. pine and emacs have menus, mutt and vim do not. (At > least not how I configured them.) > > > Anyway: neither mutt nor pine can fetch their mail from a > > POP3 account themselves. You need an additional utility > > called "fetchmail" > > They can both handle POP3i (and IMAP). pine can even handle multiple > POP3 mailboxes. However I find fetchmail easier to use (and it allows > use of procmail). Bingo. That's my combo of choice. I use fetchmail to suck mail from various pop accounts to my imap server. Procmail (tries to) reduce the spam load. (Oh, and Mutt Rules :) L -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message