What mail client do *you* use?

Jason C. Wells

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Jun 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/17/98

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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote:

>I'm getting ready to retire my creaky old Sun SS2. One problem though -
>I'm addicted to mailtool. I need to find a functionally equivalant mail
>client.
>
>It should save messages in standard mailbox format. Also, I understand
>some clients have problems with file locking. I use procmail to sort incoming
>messages into about 15 or 20 mailfolders. The mail client shouldn't require
>any 'staging' folders for new messages, etc.
>
>Any suggestions? 'vm'/emacs looks interesting - any comments regarding
>actual usage?

I don't know anything about mailtool. I use pine and procmail to divvy up
my mail between ten folders. I like pine's ability to pipe email through
pgp. Pine is hyper documented. YMMV

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Scott Mitchell

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Jun 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/18/98

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Joe McGuckin said:
>I'm getting ready to retire my creaky old Sun SS2. One problem though -
>I'm addicted to mailtool. I need to find a functionally equivalant mail
>client.
>
>It should save messages in standard mailbox format. Also, I understand
>some clients have problems with file locking. I use procmail to sort incoming
>messages into about 15 or 20 mailfolders. The mail client shouldn't require
>any 'staging' folders for new messages, etc.
>
>Any suggestions? 'vm'/emacs looks interesting - any comments regarding
>actual usage?

VM uses Emacs' own peculiar file locking scheme, so you do need to use
'staging' folders to have it work with procmail. Other than that it's
quite good.

I'd recommend you take a look at mutt -- it does the locking properly, has
a boatload of features and integrates nicely with PGP. Text-based though,
so you'd have to lose the nice mailtool GUI.

BTW, I hope you're not discarding the SS2 entirely. They make great
X-terminals (I'm writing this on an ancient IPC running NetBSD).

Scott.

Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)

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Jun 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/18/98

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And if ya dont want it fully ill tke the SS2 :P
I use Pine, its a great emailer, with the exception of every time you want
to look at the newsgroup lkist it has to download it again :/
- -TeChY

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