[techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:51:01PM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Claudine Chionh thought:
> > Hi Michelle and others,
> > 
> > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:24:05PM -0700, Michelle Dukich <michelledukich at yahoo.com> scripsit, 
> > > I am on the quest for a mail client that is not going
> > > to make me work so hard to make it work.  
> > 
> > What other mail clients (whatever OS) have you used in the past?  
> > It might make the difference in how much more you have to learn 
> > or having to change old habits.
> > 
> > Personally, my response is always: Use Mutt.
> > Need a GUI?  Use Mutt-in-xterm.
> > Stuck with Windows?  Use Mutt under Cygwin.
> 
> :-)

Well said. :-)

> > Searching: You can use regular expressions to search mail indexes.  
> > I don't think there is any facility to search within message bodies 
> > (except one at a time), but you could just grep the mailboxes.
> 
> <ESC> b

Right, and I use grepmail to do even moer powerful searching on the
mailboxes.

sendmail/exim/qmail + fetchmail + procmail + mutt is harder to learn
than just about any other method, and not worth the effort if you just
email a few friends from time to time. If you get 100+ messages a day
from various lists (I have 65 folders atm), archive many thousands of
messages, and need powerful searching, there's no better approach.

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