From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 17:47:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com (cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com [24.0.114.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C50151EB for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00294; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff) From: jeff Message-Id: <199906160047.RAA00294@cc602670-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com> Subject: Re: Mail programs In-Reply-To: <1D7D0A00F0E8D111A26600104B873E4C01783F24@exchange.quests.com> from Scott Benjamin at "Jun 15, 1999 4:52:29 pm" To: SBenjamin@quest.com (Scott Benjamin) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.Org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Reply To: iratus@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1072 > I'm trying to do some research on mail programs, and I would like your help. > I know that there are a bunch of mail programs out there on the net, but > what are some of the "BETTER" ones and why? > > Thanks > > Scott > > ---- > "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature" > -- Rich Kulawiec > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Hello-The issue of mail programs is touchy and prone to vast and largely unproductive argumentation-SO THIS IS ONLY MY PERSONAL OPINION-No flames please-I use (and have used) Elm as a command line mail user agent for years now and find it easy to configure, integrates well with PGP-262 (and with 5.0i with patches) and in general very reliable-In X I really like XFMail-the same things can be said for it as for Elm-It is really a personal choice-The ports and/or packages gives you many choices-Try a few and go with the one that gets the job done for you with a minimum of hassle-Good Luck jeff phillips To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message