Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 14:33:00 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-freebsd-mobile@arctic.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access Message-ID: <199710080503.OAA00868@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 1997 21:07:06 MST." <199710080407.VAA09652@austin.polstra.com>
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> > 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. mike
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