From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 4 22:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14358 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14351 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 22:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23731; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:38:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from drwho) Message-ID: <19980805003806.A22893@drwho.xnet.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:38:06 -0500 From: "M. Maxwell" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some questions about mail Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: ; from John on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 05:15:37AM +0100 X-Useless-Header: http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 05:15:37AM +0100, John wrote: > I am looking for a mail client that will allow me (once logged in as > john), to go to (for instance, the freebsd-questions folder), compose a > question (or an answer!) that has the From: field set to freebsd-root@i- > zone.demon.co.uk (because it is under this name that I subscribe). > > Currently, in pine, I have a freebsd-root folder, but because I am > logged in as john, the email comes out as from: freebsd-root zone.demon.co.uk> which is suboptimal. > > Many mailing lists will not allow postings from other than the > subscribed mailbox. Unfortunately, freebsd-root@ cannot be a login name > as it has more than 8 chars. I hope that there is a way round this other > than unsubscribing then subscribing again under a different name. > > Ideally the folder will be expireable like a newsgroup, and even more > ideally it will have threading. Might I suggest looking into the "Mutt" Email client? It's in the ports collection and has support for mailing lists and multiple folders. I use mutt and procmail to handle all my lists (I don't bother setting up sendmail aliases). In general, I run fetchmail to bring mail to my sendmail which is filtered by procmail into the appropriate $HOME/Mail/..... folders for each mailing list (and of course, one for spam :) ) Mutt is also threaded and has a nice 'L'ist reply command (using it right now). -- drwho @ xnet.com -- http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "Freedom of government is good, but freedom FROM government is better." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message