[Techtalk] Linux mail clients?

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 09:41:29AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Akkana Peck thought:
> [Carla asks about mailers]
> 
> I notice you didn't list any command-line mailers in your list.
> I use mutt. Simple UI, fast and works fine over ssh. Some things about
> it drive me batty, but not as batty as the other mailers I've tried.
> The mutt motto is "All mailers suck, but mutt sucks less" and I
> guess I'd have to agree with that.
> 
> 	...Akkana

+1 for mutt.  I use it at home on mbox (and maildir IIRC) and at work over
IMAP to an MS Exchange server.  No filtering or anything, doesn't even do
SMTP (it expects a sendmail process locally to handle outgoing messages).
I use procmail for filtering (or on-server rules for the Exchange server).

Conor

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