Re: mail program for FC6

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 21:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 11:53 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> Martin Marques wrote:
> >>> edwardspl ita org mo wrote:
> >>>> Dear All,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a tool of mail program is similar with pine for FC6 ?
> >>> Yes, pine.
> >> Yes, pine has one of the most bizarre user interfaces known to man and 
> >> you aren't going to find anything similar in that respect.  Mutt is a 
> >> little more sensible, but does anyone still use a character based mailer 
> >> regularly these days? Even if you have a limited bandwidth connection, 
> >> imap to a local GUI mailer is a lot nicer.
> 
> > That depends how you receive your mail. Since a linux machine contains
> > its own smtp server there should no meed for the mailer to do imap.
> 
> Not everyone has a public IP address with suitable DNS handling for 
> every machine where they might want to read their email.
> 
>  > Your
> > machine can be directly accessible. And mutt is  a mailer that handle
> > threaded - sorted mail messages properly where programs like evolution
> > can't.
> 
> What do you mean by 'properly'?  This works for me:
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/evolution24/index.html?page=/documentation/evolution24/evolution24/data/usage-mail-getnsend-read.html, 
>   although I've been using thunderbird more lately, which also does 
> threads but is a little slower to switch back and forth between 
> threaded/unthreaded views and I usually view sorted by timestamp and 
> switch to threaded only when I've forgotten the  earlier part of the 
> conversation.
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell gmail com
> 
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