From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 15:53:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D712337B407 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 58771 invoked by uid 100); 28 Sep 2001 21:06:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15284.58964.104694.516796@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:06:28 -0500 To: "Charles Burns" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature-rich GUI mail client In-Reply-To: <17504180@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Charles Burns types: > Introducing my parents to *nix, but can't seem to find any feature-rich mail > clients for X. > I haven't used X-windows much at all, so am fairly unfamiliar with the > software available. Are there any such programs that have Outlook-like > features such as e-mail address auto-complete? Kmail doesn't cut it, and > being non computer techie people, they aren't interested in using any > console programs at all. VM in Xemacs. It has e-mail address auto-complete, along with a slew of other features. You can't get the graphical buttons in stock emacs. > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated--even any statements saying > that no such program exists so that I can stop looking. The one thing I've noticed is that most Unix mailers don't seem to have automatic filing and the like. VM can be made to do it, but it's ugly. The reason for this is that Unix systems usually provide procmail or a similar mechanism that does this externally. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message