You might have a look at Heirloom mailx.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html
Pieter Verberne
I was wondering if you guys could clarify something for me. I looked
heirloom mailx (nail) very carefully and it looks like mail on steroids.
One of the reasons that I
personally stop using mail long time ago was that I could not attach the files to
it. I looked the man pages for mail from the base and it seems that is still the
case. Am I wrong? That is the deal breaker for me. Would it be possible
in the light of the fact that some of the original ATT code
and more recent versions of mailx are now released
(I am not sure under which license) to add this feature to mail from the base.
Secondly, nail has native abilities to fetch the mail from imap server
using SSL as well as to connect to MTA via smtp and use SSL again.
It also has built
in bayesian filter. My understanding that mail from base doesn't have
those capabilities. Now OpenSSH could circumvent above deficiencies of mail but my
question is there are tool in the base which can fetch (like fetch mail from ports
or similar perl module) messages from the remote mailboxes on imap servers.
Obviously one can use nail, mutt, alpine or gazzilion of other "light weight"
GUI mail clients to accomplish above but how to do that only with tools from
the base?
Thanks a lot
Predrag
