Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 23:10:50 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail client : imap + smtp : any lightweight options? Message-ID: <20170417224355.D9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <mailman.117.1492430402.96656.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.117.1492430402.96656.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:00:36 +0530 Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
> I have been away for a while.
>
> Have been using a combination of mutt and msmtp as a client for
> my mail system hosted with my provider attached to my personal domain.
>
> There seem to have been a whole lot of changes and the mutt client
> i had been using has undergone a whole lot of changes to the way it
> is packaged, turning it into an abomination.
>
> A little digging helped me find mutt-lite which works well, but is shown
> to be a development branch.
>
> Is there any alternative to mutt which can be considered simple yet
> capable of being used for everyday mail related activities?
>
> I checked out alpine, but the thing goes out to download Perl, which
> is kinda scary.
Hi Mayuresh,
Can't help with mutt; I've always used pine, in recent years alpine.
The only thing 'scary' about alpine is its number of (runtime) config
options, but I've only ever changed a few things from sane defaults.
alpine has no dependency on perl, so I'm wondering what happened there?
root@x200:/usr/ports/mail/alpine # ldd `which alpine` # [FreeBSD 9.3]
/usr/local/bin/alpine:
libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x800c1b000)
libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x800e25000)
libpam.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.5 (0x801044000)
libncurses.so.8 => /lib/libncurses.so.8 (0x801251000)
libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x80149f000)
libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x8016c2000)
libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x801a20000)
Check full details at https://www.freshports.org/mail/alpine/
cheers, Ian
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