[techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

[Claudine Chionh]

On Friday, 08 June 2001, Penguina scripsit, 

> I use pine, and I can tell you a few things I really don't like
> about it.  ^X (send) and ^C (cancel) are right next to each other.

I'll tell you what's silly - I was just fixing up my procmail recipes 
and sent a whole bunch of mail into a 'Linixchix' folder!  Took me 
ages to wonder where all the Linuxchix mail went <g>.

One of the problems changing from pine to mutt was that the keybindings 
are quite different, especially the keys used to select/tag and apply 
commands to tagged messages.  It didn't take me long to get used to 
mutt's keybindings, so when I'm stuck somewhere else with pine it drives 
me crazy!  (Mutt keybindings are similar to elm's.)

> Hah!  And I thought I used fetchmail because I was too lazy to figure
> out how to get my mail client to do it.

I use fetchmail on my home box, but at work I use mutt to check my 
IMAP mailboxes.

> I'm a bit concerned about running fetchmail over an outside network,
> though -- it doesn't encrypt, does it?  Is there a way to set up
> fetchmail (or other mail clients that have that functionality built
> in) so that it *does* encrypt both the password and the data stream?

There's a 'fetchmail-ssl' package in Debian - I should look into it.  
It would depend on whether the server implements SSL, wouldn't it?

Claudine

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