[Techtalk] Linux mail clients?

[Jennifer]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:24 PM, carla <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:47:45 +0000
> Conor Daly <conor.daly-linuxchix at cod.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> I like pointy-clicky and pretty colors for some things. Mutt has its
> advantages, though procmail makes me cry. Maildrop is a pretty cool
> procmail alternative and is actually understandable by tired dumb old
> people like me. Alpine is nice, though it makes me sad for the good old
> days of Usenet.
>
> The weird thing is support for different mail stores is inconsistent,
> in fact it's downright bizarre. Icedove/Thunderbird only supports mbox.
>

I feel like I'm doing a little advertisement for Thunderbird, but really
I've used it for years and it gets the job done for me :) ANYWAY, I connect
via imap to two Maildir formatted accounts using it. And to gmail via
imap...I don't recall what gmail uses now. When you say mbox you meant
that's what it has to use on the local file system?

BTW about a month ago my husband got stuck on a linux-related issue (don't
recall what it was) and I saw him skimming through your book