"Dmitrij D. Czarkoff" <czark...@gmail.com> wrote: > And you don't need threaded view for IMAP?
I dont need it, because I never had it and never used it. Perhaps a good thing to have. > > For reading IMAP it would be nice to have the possibility to "mount" the > > remote folder as a local file (no work in FUSE?). > > You have mail/isync and mail/offlineimap for that. I use the former, and it > does the trick. I used "fetchmail" (recommended here by Roberto Vargas) and I have very good experience with it. Would "isync" or "offlineimap" do a better work? The idea is not to syncronize remote and local mailfolders, but to read the headers and only download the messages that one wants to read. That is also what "imap" is for. Perhaps this problem will some day be solved with the plan9 for the user space port. > > Another question is how to send with alternative smtp servers. > > OpenSMTPd sends my mail via Google's SMTP for me (though you may obsorve in > the headers of this message that it doesn't try to hide my IP and hostname). > Sendmail also supports this. I did configure "sendmail" to do it, it was not trivial. But I cannot decide at the moment of sending a mail, what smtp server I want to use. to change the configuration of sendmail only for sending a mail is too much. In hairloom mailx (nail) you can define different "accounts" in the configuration file, they contain a key, the imap and smtp server to use, as also data for the authentification. When calling "nail", you can give it with the option -A the key of the account to use. If you use normal mail, it will take the same configuration file and complain because of these data: that is why I said that the configuration file should have another name than mailx. > In the end I use mutt in always disconnected mode, and it feels quite good. > (Or would feel if Google's IMAP wasn't so brain-damaged and unconformant.) I suspect mutt is the better mail program, although more complicated, less intuitive to use and configure. I gave up the search for the perfect mail program. Rodrigo.
