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 * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * | M A Y T H E S O U R C E B E W I T H Y O U | | | | Tor Stormwall mailto:tor@stormwall.org | | http://creson.com/~tor http://www.FreeBSD.org | | | * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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