Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:32:54 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jim Flournoy" <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Good mail client? Message-ID: <20011018213416.44E2E37B408@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 05:17:07 +0000 (GMT), P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote: >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Doug Poland wrote: > >> 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 :-) > >Anyway: neither mutt nor pine can fetch their mail from a >POP3 account themselves. You need an additional utility >called "fetchmail" pine will fetch pop3 mail.. you just have to put in on the config line ie mail.youserver.com/pop3/user=username --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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