Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 23:54:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-freebsd-mobile@arctic.org>, patl@phoenix.volant.org, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access Message-ID: <XFMail.971007235628.dburr@POBoxes.com> In-Reply-To: <199710080503.OAA00868@word.smith.net.au>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My secret spy satellite informs me that on 08-Oct-97, Mike Smith wrote: >> > 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. I understand that Gennady is hard at work on the enxt version, and that those issues (and many more) will be addressed by it. You mihgt want to subscribe tot he xfmail mailnig list (fairly low traffic) to read about it, and maybe chip in with some suggestions. Send a "subscribe xfmail" message to majordomo@burka.netvision.net.il - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNDsum/jpixuAwagxAQGOxQP/YD2uxtm6qpUS83Ct1Sfm5HURp81+0mPt 0BRoH4JrLLIIQ2jCghbKC67A4s/K0FvLHsm1UIVda6JSGLumLs/ra6YW7SA34b47 8WMW4gYqvYen5hFwNXgDjj5iS6OzfGHTcU804FcluRhvET8LDOpxMYSc49k0u7Vm totDN7u/9Z8= =qIaY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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