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Subject: Re: recommend console email client?
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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:30 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > For years I am not yet satisfied with ANY console email client, though I
> > have tried quite a few. My requirement is actually very simple: a email
> > client must be able to:
> >
> >     1. do the automatic charset conversion, so if I got an email in
> >        GB18030 charset, it display correct on my UTF-8 console;
> 
> pine does it at least with UTF-8 and ISO

yeah, that means most westerners will have no problem :)

> >     2. is able to connect to IMAP server, copy sent emails to
> >        INBOX.Sent folder and let me browse IMAP folders;
> 
> pine does it with folder-collections=myfolders #md/Maildir/.[]
> in .pinerc
> 
> making it compatible with imap (dot before foldernames).
> 
> >     3. is able to look up contact information (including telephone
> >        number) by LDAP;
> 
> IMHO no

pine can do it.