On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:06:16AM -0800, Debian User wrote: > Any suggestions for client that reads mail *and* news?
Not one that does well at both. There's pine, but it doesn't filter well, or thread at all, and it's nonfree. There's Mozilla, but it doesn't filter well or read mail from the spool. Then there's Netscape, which takes everything wrong about mozilla and wraps it in a non-free license. If you want something better that does both, go fire up your text editor of choice and start coding. You don't see much software designed to do both, because the design itself is both bad and borne of laziness. It's not *that* hard to open two xterms and type one command in each for starters, and it's far better to do one function well than two craptastically. Which is why mail readers are just that: They read the mail and they hand mail to be sent off to the MTA, reception is handled either by fetchmail and an MTA or just an MTA, and delivery is handled by just an MTA. Filtering's handled by procmail. Each program does one thing and does it well to make a more complete, more compact solution. News readers either read and post straight off the spool or connect to an NNTP server to do so, and typically also do filtering. It would be nice if something like procmail existed for news, but considering the nature of news service, I can't think of a better way to handle it than the way tin does. BTW, news is to mail as tin is to elm, I'm wondering if there's a mutt equivilent to tin... -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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