unix mail clients

[Joseph C. Lininger]

The way my setup is now is that I have a server responsible for sending 
and receiving mail. Pine retrieves the mail remotely via imap, and it 
sends mail via smtp.

-- 
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> I know for a fact that Mutt supports IMAP, although I don't use it myself. I
> think that it can also create/delete/modify IMAP mailboxes, but not sure. Check
> the mutt and muttrc man pages for more info.
> 
> As you may have picked up from this list, Mutt can be quite tricky to configure
> at times, but it is a very powerful mail client.
> 
> I myself have not long started using Mutt, and am still tweaking my config file
> to suit my liking.
> 
> Don't forget that you have to set up and configure an MTA to handle sending
> mail, but if you are already using Pine, I think you may already be aware of
> this.
> 
> hth
> 
> Luke
> 
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 05:15:23PM EST, 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Joseph C. Lininger
> > jbahm at pcdesk.net
> > 
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