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

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

Yes, I remember when you had me using XFMail, and it barfed and I lost
all of my e-mail.  Very bad experience.

Ben Kochie wrote:
> 
> personaly, i use pine for mail reading, then i fetchmail/procmail filter
> my mail to my personal system for storage, and I use mutt from there.. I
> used to use XFmail, but found it minorly unstable when my mail directories
> started to exceed 100MB.. there is an effort to freshen up the xfmail
> code, and port to gtk.  there is also spruce, a gtk based mail app, but I
> don't know much filtering it has
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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> 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.
> >
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Adam Maloney
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