Re: [TCLUG:12799] help me find a MUA

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Dan Debertin wrote:

> Hey everyone --
> 	I have tried just about everything on the planet as far as mail
> clients go. I've been using pine for around 8 years, but now that I'm a
> sysadmin, I wade through lots & lots of mail, and PINE has no filtering
> capabilities that I know of. I also spend most of the day in
> GNOME/Enlightenment, so a GUI client would be cool for me. My big
> requirement is filtering, though. I suppose I could buckle down and learn
> procmail, but I've got enough tools to add to my repertoire right now;
> procmail just might be the straw that breaks the alpaca's back....
> XFMail looks ugly but feature-rich, but it crashes on my Slackware 7.0
> system; if anyone has gotten that to work, I'd love to know how ....
> Anyway, aside from that, what mail clients do you folks like?
> 
> Thanks for your ideas ...
> 
> ~Dan D.
> 

Use procmail to sort e-mail into different mailboxes and then
pine/mutt/whatever to read it.  I haven't found a GUI client that has
anywhere close to the power of pine yet.

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nate carlson
the infinite loop
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