From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 14:34:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44E2E37B408 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4196 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2001 21:34:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.136.97) by smtp3.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 18 Oct 2001 21:34:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 35595 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2001 21:34:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mother) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2001 21:34:12 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Doug Poland" , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Greg Lehey" , "Jim Flournoy" Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:32:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Good mail client? Message-Id: <20011018213416.44E2E37B408@hub.freebsd.org> 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 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