[techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

[Kelly McQuarrie]

Hi Claudine:

I've been using pine since I switch to unix so I can't compare it to
anything else.  Why do you like mutt better? Maybe I should switch?

-Kelly

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Claudine Chionh wrote:

> 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.
> 
> > I would prefer a GNOME solution.  It will need to get
> > mail from several POP accounts with a good system for
> > folders and searching.  
> 
> Thankfully my mail servers provide IMAP access, but according to the 
> Mutt documentation it seems you can access as many POP accounts as 
> you please.  Of course, 'power users' are more likely to use 
> something like fetchmail to collect POP/IMAP mail independent of 
> mail client.
> 
> Folders: Mutt provides support for Maildir and MH style folders, which 
> permit nested mail folders.
> 
> 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.
> 
> http://www.mutt.org/ has a copy of the Mutt reference manual.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't advise on how Mutt compares with other Unix 
> mail clients (except Pine), because I *always* use Mutt.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Claudine
> 
> -- 
> geek historian - Melbourne, AU 
> 
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