From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 18:43:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bran.mc.mpls.visi.com (bran.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4536337B41A for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by bran.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7DA4A5A for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:43:06 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2M2h6d01771; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:43:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:43:06 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200203220243.g2M2h6d01771@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <20020321203442.GA7042_foo31-146.visit.se@ns.sol.net> <20020321191921.A25783_darkstar.bellsouth.net@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <20020321191921.A25783_darkstar.bellsouth.net@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: Favorite Mail App? X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 In article <20020321191921.A25783_darkstar.bellsouth.net@ns.sol.net>, ash@vectorstar.net writes: > On Thursday 21 March Martin Karlsson wrote: >> * Brendan McAlpine [2002-03-21 13.46 -0500]: >> > Hey everyone, >> >> Hi. >> >> > Iım not trying to start a flame war here, but I was wondering if the list >> > could give me some recommendations on a good mail app. I donıt have any >> > special requirements, Iım just wondering what the majority of people are >> > using. >> >> Well, I can't speak for /the majority/; however I can recommend >> Mutt. It's a console/xterm app and *highly* configurable. > > I second that. > Mutt is great for managing mailing lists. It is also highly > configurable, For example: I have a send hook that automatically > appends a fortune(6) to outgoing messages. And I third it. >> It can be hard to get to know it, but it's most certainly worth the >> effort. > > definitely. I'm no guru, but I tried it after not being a guru with elm, and I'm not going back! The box-stock config gets you running fast, but yes, it's rather like the knews INN client; so many options, it can be a little intimidating. THe only thing I wish it was better at was displaying those all-too-common HTML-with-images mailings I get. But this could just be that I don't have things set up right. > Austin Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message