Mail client advice

Jess Anderson anderson at wisc.edu
Thu Nov 27 14:20:41 UTC 2003


leam:

>Okay, I could use some help on picking a mail client. I'm
>shuffling the  home computers around and want to end up with
>one file server and one  Fedora based workstation; this means
>moving 5 years of e-mail!

Hello fellow pack-rat, though I'm ahead of you by 8 years.

>I like the usefulness of a GUI mail client, the current choice
>is Mozilla. Sorting mail is fairly easy, as is re-sorting.
>However, I also like a non-GUI interface for the ability to
>connect remotely; I've used pine before.

>Suggestions are welcome, preferably ones that work on Fedora
>and are open source.

I used elm for years but somehow never really liked pine. When
elm died, I switched to mutt, which is feature-rich, highly
configurable, actively and strongly supported, and is included
in FC1. I've had no problems with it under RH or FC.

<http://www.mutt.org/>

HTH

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