On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Rob S. Wolfram wrote: > Will Lowe wrote: > > If you want a simple, powerful email/news client, I recommend pine. > > It's nonfree because you can't redistribute it for profit, but works > > good, and runs really well in an xterm ... I use it because it's what we > > use at school, and I can run it without X across a dialup link when I > > have to. > > IMHO, you haven't seen a goot MUA 'till you've seen Mutt. I'm still > running bo but I got this one out of hamm. It supports threading which is > wonderful for mailing lists and is highly configurable (and it's character > based, which I like). I could go on and on, but I left pine for what it > is. > Personally I prefer reading news with slrn (offline of course). > Also I would advice the originatoe of this thread to use fetchmail for > retrieving the mail. It has a simple pro: when fetching mail it just > forwards it to the SMTP port, so things like procmail can work from your > .forward file. I use it to put all my mailing list postings in separate > files. _Very_ handy...
Is there a handy way to handle multiple mail folders with mutt? In Pine, I make them 'Incoming mail' folders [1] and then I can use the TAB key to browse all folders for new messages. Remco [1] To do this, in the setup menu, check the "enable-incoming-folders" option. I haven't found the place to add 'Incoming" folders in the setup menu, but editing the .pinerc file is very easy. Just change the line incoming-folders= to something like incoming-folders=Debian.Announce mail/Debian.Announce, Debian.Changes mail/Debian.Changes, Debian.Policy mail/Debian.Policy, Debian.Devel mail/Debian.Devel, title.of.mail_folder file_name/of/folder You don't need to add the file /var/spool/mail/<username> to this list, it will be the first "incoming" folder automatically. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .