Linux-Misc Digest #791, Volume #27 Sun, 6 May 01 13:13:02 EDT
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Re: Good linux mail client (Roy Culley)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy Culley)
Subject: Re: Good linux mail client
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:22:14 +0200
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In article <9ci2em$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Cochrane) writes:
> In article <Jk4G6.182875$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Cochrane) writes:
>>> I've been having some trouble with Netscape's email client lately -
>>> it may be time to find something that works better. Can anyone
>>> recommend a good GUI-based email client that works well on a home
>>> system with the email server on the other side of a ppp-connected
>>> line?
>>
>>Hmm...
>>
>>Are you talking about the situation where you're pulling email in
>>bits, on demand, from an IMAP server that sits on the other side?
>
> No.
>>
>>Or are you talking about pulling mail en masse from a POP server?
>
> Yes.
>>
>>If the latter, I'd commend EXMH. I've got a few hundred MB of mail
>>archives on my machine [going back at least 8 years]; it's a
>>reasonably robust repository for mail.
>
> Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out. Do you know if exmh can
> filter emails into folders according to user-set criteria?
Yes it can but your better using procmail for this. exmh is excellent. The
O'Reilly book by Jerry Peek on mh is online and has a couple of chapters
on exmh. Just point your browser at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/
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