From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 8 19: 8:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A77E15D6E for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA22821 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:08:03 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA03498 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:08:00 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 50823 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Sep 1999 02:08:01 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:08:01 +1000 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa) Message-ID: <19990909120801.A49847@gurney.reilly.home> References: <5088.936836795@localhost> <199909090043.RAA39434@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <199909090043.RAA39434@rah.star-gate.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > 3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :). > > On a different topic, does anyone know of a good X mailer > (currently I am using exmh) : There aren't any. :-) (depends on your value of "good") > 1. user friendly > 2. filtering capability I've decided that threading isn't the mailer's job. I don't want to have to wade through a mailbox full of lists when I'm connecting from off site, and have shut down my on-site mailer. Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA, I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER block. > 3. thread topic support The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt, but that might be too traditional for your option 1. If you find a pretty, lightweight X-based MUA that does a good job with threads (and MIME, and PGP), I'd like to know about it too. XFMail isn't acceptable, because I've got 130M of mbox mail boxes in a deep directory hierarchy, and I'd like to keep them that way. The last time I looked at XFMail it insisted on an un-nested mh-directory style of mailbox. Is it still the case? Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs. I found its layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward. How configurable is it, really? Do you use it as it comes out of the box? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message