From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 3:35:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B54D14F2E for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 03:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from n245-111.berlin.snafu.de ([195.21.245.111] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by www.inx.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10pUq4-0001fq-00; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 12:35:08 +0200 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id 9E3B3314; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 02:29:18 +0200 (CEST) To: Khetan Gajjar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best POP3 Server References: From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 03 Jun 1999 02:29:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar's message of "Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:55:51 +0200 (SAST)" Message-ID: Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Khetan Gajjar writes: > Around Today, "Juergen Nickelsen" wrote : > > JN> (I switched back to IMAP-UW because I need the standard mail boxes -- > JN> I found no good text-based IMAP client for FreeBSD.) > > Pine 4.10 is quite nice, and cross-platform. [...] Yes, I have looked into Pine. I just wrote a (private) message to Adam Nealis, who asked me "What's wrong with Pine 4.x?": I found no way to display and conveniently access my mail folders on the IMAP server with Pine. The only folder that Pine shows me is INBOX; I can go to a single folder -- e. g. "{localhost}Mail/something" --, but I can not (as the help text suggests) list my folders by going to "{localhost}Mail/". Other IMAP clients that I know (Mulberry, Netscape Messenger) show me all folders in the previously selected hierarchy on startup -- this is what I am looking for. With Pine I *can* access these folders, but only by typing their name in full *each time* I want to access them. Others are worse; for example VM (in (X)Emacs) seems to see IMAP like POP -- get all messages from INBOX to a local folder and that's it. Perhaps I am simply missing something with Pine here. Do I? On the other hand I find Pine not one of the prime contenders for the Best Character-Based User Interface Award, but that may be just a matter of taste and habits. At least it *does* contradict my habits and expectations of consistency in several points. Well, this is what's wrong with Pine from my (current) point of view. -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message