Email Text Client? Which one?

Yamakasi · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 201

Wassup ppl,

I was wondering, what do u guy suggest for Email client based text?

Thx

nikai · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject:

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

Second the mutt

tukem · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:06 am Post subject:

Mpemba Effect · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 156

mutt

Woland · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:04 am Post subject:

If you are really adventurous---xemacs
If you want your friends to think you've got big UNIX cohones---mailx
If you are a sentimental UNIXer---elm
If you are a sentimental UNIXer but still wants lots of bells and whistles---Pine

I suppose that mutt has its followrs, but it looks like some sort of innovation to me. And you know where that might lead----you might as well use Evolution, huh?

s1th · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject:

I'd recommend mutt too.
Great support for multiple "profiles", various sorts of "hooks", PGP/GnuPG support, threaded views, color support ...
It very customizable.

As stated on the mutt homepage (http://www.mutt.org/):
"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less"

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DefconAlpha · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject: TextMail

Pine: Because not everyone needs vi.
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axxackall · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:17 pm Post subject:

Xemacs/VM - the highest level of customizzation available for an end-user I've ever seen. You can begin your adventure playing with various variables, hooks and macros and enjoy a very well done application design. But basically, you can reprogram everything as it's written on Lisp, which is very easy to reprogram

Woland · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:01 am Post subject:

Not to mention, if you can figure out how to do e-mail and news on emacs, you will have learned quite a bit, and will also have mastered a great text editor, development tool, et c. et c.

I would suggest xemacs over its gnu rival, it just seems a bit sprightlier, has a few more features, and, as far as I can tell, a more active development. But they are both good.

iarkin · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:26 am Post subject:

mutt, it's really sweet.

It's easy ot implement gpg and it's very configureable.

/iarkin

abhishek · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:22 am Post subject:

I seventh mutt. It's really really nice. I would also look at the setup guide for it on gentoo.org as I picked up some useful things there(such as nbsmtp).

credmp · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:01 am Post subject:

Then I eight-th that

trust the puppydog...

weltraumfahrer · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:24 am Post subject:

telnet;-)

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axxackall · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:00 am Post subject: