Bill Ataras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just curious what people are using to read/send mail from X. I was using
> netscape (SMTP/POP) that came with my redhat dist, but wanted something
> with more features (multiple POP accts, filtering etc). I've been
> playing with "spruce" (check freshmeat). Its pretty good. But I'm
> curious what you guys are using. Now that I have an industrial strength
> mail server (qmail) I'd like a really good MUA. Maybe to help me use
> different mail accounts for different maillists and for usenet etc
> etc. Have you found a good mail client that will let you live on
> multiple maillists, usenet, spam/filter yada yada?
If you want the same interface for newsgroups as for mailing lists, the
only reader I'm aware of that both fully integrates both into an intuitive
interface and keeps up with modern times (score files, multiple NNTP
servers with authentication, support for ssh tunnelled POP connections,
etc.) is Gnus. You have to use emacs as your editor to use it, since it's
built inside emacs, but feature for feature there really isn't anything
else close. Particularly with the latest version, which has full MIME
support including inlined graphics under XEmacs. (Hands down the most
thoughtful and intelligent MIME support that I've ever seen, from using
quiet and unobtrusive boundary separators so that even mail with
attachments looks decent to people without MIME readers to the ability to
select text/plain as your preferred part in multipart/alternative messages
if you wish.)
On a qmail note, Gnus can also read directly from maildirs natively, and
has built-in support for qmail to the degree of calling qmail-inject
directly for sending mail rather than going through the sendmail
compatibility interface.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
