unix mail clients

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Jun 28 2004  1:15 AM, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have used Linux in a server environment for quite some time, but 
> have had little experience with it in a desktop environment. However, 
> I'm currently experimenting with this a bit. I'm 
> just a bit curious about something. I'm currently using pine to read and 
> compose email under Unix. In your opinion, is this the best mail client 
> to use with speakup, or might I do better to use something like mutt or 
> cone? F.Y.I., I need remote access to mailboxes via imap. I don't want 
> to use fetchmail to pull the mail to my local machine.

If you get your .muttrc set up well then mutt is a dream to use. It will
connect directly to both pop and imap servers of the ssl and regular
variety. The big issue that many people have with mutt is that it
depends on on a locally running copy of sendmail or one of its varients
to send out mail. Mutt doesn't and likely won't ever connect directly to
a remote smtp server.

I haven't used cone at all and I haven't used pine for a number of
years, but once i got used to mutt I wouldn't want to use pine anymore.

Just my $.02.

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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