mail program for FC6
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 4 14:12:10 UTC 2007
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 at 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 at gmail.com
>
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