From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 18 06:14:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15845 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 06:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk (lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk [194.200.230.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15811 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 06:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benhutch@lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk) Received: from benhutch by lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zUsd0-0005gJ-00; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:12:10 +0100 Message-ID: <19981018141209.B20530@xfiles.org.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:12:09 +0100 From: Ben Hutchinson To: andrew@squiz.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail client program reccomendations? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew McNaughton on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 01:47:14AM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd recommend mutt, mostly for it's threading and speed. It also has some rather powerful features you may find useful. However, mail filters are often far more useful than any MUA for handling large volumes of email. I use procmail. You can find both in the ports collection. - Ben On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 01:47:14AM +1300, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > I'm interested to know what other people consider to be the better client > programs for handling large ammounts of email. I've been using Pine and > it just doesn't do what I need. I recieve copies of every item going > through our newswires, as well as mailing lists and more personal > discussion and need to be able to archive, manage and quickly access many > thousands of email messages. I need to have important stuff brought to my > attention, and have less important stuff quietly archived. I'm interested > to hear about commercial packages as well as free ones. -- "Trust No One" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message