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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:18:16 +0100 (CET)
From:      Tor Stormwall <tor@agent.creson.com>
To:        chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        freebsd chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: email, email, email,  :-(
Message-ID:  <20020202101420.V94058-100000@bossen.myhome.my>
In-Reply-To: <3C5BA9B8.7070606@wiegand.org>

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> I am dissatisfied with the gui mail clients. Netscape6 mail does
> everything I desire but is slower than a slug. I've tried at least 8 or
> 10, maybe more, other gui mail clients from the ports and none of them
> contain all the features of netscape mail but they are all faster. Some
> won't install at all, some won't connect to my isp's pop server (some
> will), some are missing too many desired features auto-downloading
> messages and filtering.
> So, with that said, I installed Pine and Procmail. I've used Pine a bit
> in the past at the University, so I am familiar with it. What do I need
> a pretty gui for anyway, right? I thought procmail could download my
> email from my isp's pop server, but don't see how. Maybe I need another
> app yet?
> What do some of you guys use, to download, filter, and read your mail
> from so many mail lists?
>

Procmail is, of what I know, only a filter to separate mails
into given files. I use fetchamil to get the mail, procmail
sort them into different files, then I use Pine to read them.

Best Regards,
Tor Stormwall

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