From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 0:47:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F0F37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F8943E88 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from lilith.bellavista.cz ([10.1.0.1]) by bellavista.cz (8.9.3/8.9.8) with ESMTP id JAA23473; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:47:29 +0100 Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by lilith.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F55528; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:45:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D1CC12FDACF; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:47:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:47:26 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: "Philip M. Gollucci" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Reader Clients Message-ID: <20021202084726.GF86826@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: "Philip M. Gollucci" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3DEA2BB0.4010001@p6m7g8.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DEA2BB0.4010001@p6m7g8.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # philip@p6m7g8.com / 2002-12-01 15:33:04 +0000: > Please CC me on the reply again. Thanks. > > I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 > mails per day) I know this is not what you asked for, but I'm sure mutt would do you much better service. > I've got mail my mail working with fetchmail/procmail, so I don't need > one with filtering. All mouse-driven mail clients I know have this baggage, you'll have to take it. > Just one that understands mbox format. Just about any. BTW, if your mailboxes are going to grow a bit, you might prefer the Maildir format. There were some messages in mutt-users@ stating that Maildirs (theyr handling in mutt, anyway) are very fast on FreeBSD, especially if you have UFS_DIRHASH enabled. That said, I still have all my mail in mboxes, opening the 62MB of freebsd-questions takes less than two seconds on my machine (in mutt, of course :) > I don't think I want to use mozilla/netscape as its too bulky. And the bundled mail client is buggy. > mutt/pine are good, but not quite as graphical as I want. But will enable you to get the work done with much more comfort, in half the time. > If it matters, by WM is afterstep. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message