On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, russell simmons wrote:
> Now that I have things working fairly well on my system, (mandrake 6.0),
> I find that I don't really like netscape mail. I checked my distro
> c.d., and it has pine, elm, and mutt on it. I used pine when I was in
> college, so it is familiar to me, but i've heard that elm, and mutt are
> really good mail clients. Can anyone recommend the most intuitave and
> easy to use/configure of the three?
No. It is basically up to personal preference. Try them all and see
which you are happiest with. Personally I use pine - it does everything I
need, is easy to configure and exists everywhere I try and read mail.
Elm is pretty much dead now AFAICT. mutt does color, and threading, and
extra gubbins that I don't find at all useful, but some people like.
> Also, I use kppp to connect, is
> there a way to use one of these mailers and connect from the command
> line, without invoking x? As always, all advice is gladly accepted, and
> appreciated.
I don't quite understand the question. All of these mailers will work
just fine in X and on the console. If you want to dial up from the
console, then that is also possible - but is not a function of the mailer.
I haven't looked at kppp at all, but my guess would be there's a script
somewhere (/etc/ppp/ppp-on, or something like that, probably) that you can
run which will dial up.
--
Mike Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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