On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:33:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the list... > > I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and have over > 50 > folders and even more filters. I have been getting about 10,000 messages a > month, and now that I'm a LKML reader, it's gone even higher. So, threading > support is very important to me. So is mail filtering, weather it's with a > separate package or not doesn't matter. > > Now, here's the problem. I want to convert my email activities over to > linux. > So, I may as well drop netscape at the same time, if I can. I would like to be > able to read html mail also. I've looked at a couple in the last half hour, > and > here's what I've come across in potato-r2. > > elm+me: > this looks pretty good, and it seems to have html viewing. Though, I didn't > see > any threading features. > > mutt: didn't look very much, so don't know.
It is very nice, let's you do a lot of things, and is compatible with balsa (which is just a frontend to libmutt anyway). That said, use procmail for mail filtering and such. and enable mutt's list mode and other such goodies. I am reeiving almost as much mail as you (well maybe not so much anymore ,since i unsubscribed to debian-devel and a few other high volume lists) and it works well for me, also the ability to use it over a ssh connection is rather nice. There is also a evolution package i have heard (even for unstable/ppc i think) that should be rather nice. Also i can send you some procmail/mutt rules if you like, as they may be rather obscure for starters. Friendly, Sven Luther
