From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 7 22:08:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19383 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA19314 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00868; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:33:00 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710080503.OAA00868@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Polstra cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, Dean Gaudet , Mike Smith , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 1997 21:07:06 MST." <199710080407.VAA09652@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 14:33:00 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > There -ARE- clients that run on FreeBSD and Linux. Not as many > > as for M$ Win* or Mac; but they are there. Pine provides a tty > > interface, ML provides a reasonably nice GUI. Netscape Communicator > > (Messenger) provides the all-singing all-dancing polished GUI, with > > encryption and digital signature support. ... > > Also xfmail, which looks quite nice so far. My biggest gripes with xfmail were speed (it's laboriously slow), lack of a decent inbuilt editor (exmh's isn't much better actually), poor -ish MIME support, and the fact that it used to explode occasionally. Aside from that, it's a very powerful tool. I particularly liked the inbuilt filtering rules. mike