From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 7:15:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCF937B40A for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15uDwB-000MyO-00; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:14:19 +0300 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:14:19 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Good mail client? Message-ID: <20011018171419.Y3734@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , FBSD-Q References: <20011017224545.A19431@polands.org> <20011018050940.K63337-100000@big> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="10jrOL3x2xqLmOsH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011018050940.K63337-100000@big> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. -- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: XFCE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 5:13PM up 3 days, 7:27, 1 user, load averages: 0.26, 0.18, 0.16 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 --10jrOL3x2xqLmOsH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * P. U. (Uli) Kruppa [20011018 08:17]: writing on the su= bject 'Re: Good mail client?' | On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Doug Poland wrote: |=20 | > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:35:08PM -0700, Jim Flournoy wrote: | > > | > > > Your MUA wraps computer output and also wraps quoted | > > > text incorrectly. | > > | > > I'm sick of using webmail in windows. Can anyone | > > recommend a good text-based (no X!) mail client that | > > will work with yahoo's webmail? (pop3) I'm using | > > Freebsd 4.3. I apropos'ed "email client" but nothing | > > turned up. Thank you. | > > | > | > mutt rules | 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 :-) |=20 | Anyway: neither mutt nor pine can fetch their mail from a | POP3 account themselves. You need an additional utility | called "fetchmail" Really???? Mutt does. I cannot vouch for pine but I suspect it does (with an Internet connection). -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n i s t r a t o r -- ~\\_ =20 Odhiambo Washington \\\\ =20 Wananchi Online Ltd., `\\\\\ =20 1st Flr Loita Hse, Loita Street |\\\\\ =20 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. \\\\\|__.--~~\ =20 Fax: 254 2 313985-9 _--~ / =20 Fax: 254 2 313922 /~ ////// _-~~~~' =20 E-mail: wash@wananchi.com ('-//////-// =20 URL : http://www.wananchi.com //////(((-) =20 GSM: 254 72 743 223 / 254 733 744 121 /////" =20 _///" =20 +++ The difference between this school and a cactus plant is that the cactus has the pricks on the outside. --10jrOL3x2xqLmOsH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7zuO7n7LIsuxjem8RApZgAJ4k1yhLZf3jSR0KpXQqaaO1TFuc0ACglIIP 6UeaxuVW8bXRuTAaKtDLIPM= =VLVy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --10jrOL3x2xqLmOsH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message