From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 15:36:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B25816A400 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:36:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03DE13C487 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:36:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l2JFZx57012733 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:36:14 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2JFZc3J014404; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:35:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2JFZc8X014328; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:35:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:35:38 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Zhang Weiwu Message-ID: <20070319153537.GA13371@kobe.laptop> References: <1174227685.31608.8.camel@joe.realss.com> <20070318202903.GA20840@kobe.laptop> <1174267149.6361.4.camel@joe.realss.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1174267149.6361.4.camel@joe.realss.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.507, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.69, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommend console email client? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:36:51 -0000 On 2007-03-19 09:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: >On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 22:29 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Bearing in mind that you have relatively strict requirements >> (but, nevertheless, quite reasonable) for multibyte support, it >> may be worth considering one of the email clients bundled with or >> supported by GNU Emacs. > > Thanks very much for your detailed explanation; thanks a lot for your > time writing this. Given that my requirement is both reasonable and > high level, I believe that shows Asian people generally participated > this area of development relatively lesser than western people. Again > purely free software looks a little bit better than their non-free > alternative (mutt perform better on Chinese text than pine, though > still has fault). > > I'll try your suggestions later. Thanks a lot! You're welcome. I am currently using mutt for my mailer again, but if you need help with setting up Gnus as a mail-user-agent, feel free to ask me for my old Gnus setup. Almost all of the relevant options are in the commit history of my ~/.gnus file.