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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:54:35 EST, Shaleh wrote: > I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for > e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and > crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently > recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day and am logged in via modem > sporadically at best. exmh is popular, I like it, it has never crashed on me, it has lots of nice features, and it is packaged for both bo and hamm. exmh home page http://www.beedub.com/exmh/ exmh is a tcl/tk frontend to MH or nmh (so you'll need MH or nmh too), and I'd recommend running procmail to sort your mail, and fetchmail to get your mail, and smail to send mail, assuming dialup networking. If this sounds a little more involved than configuring netscape, it is, however I think you'll find the added functionality worthwhile in the long run. I configured fetchmail and promail mostly using the documentation available in the package (man, info, /usr/doc/*), however some online procmail resources were also helpful for fine tuning: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/procmail.html http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/links.html The primary obstacle to overcome with smail is rewriting headers and making them stick during smtp posts. I like Daniel Martin's solution, but there are both simpler and more complex methods: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html Coincidentally, I recommend you follow the recent advice regarding MH configuration: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9803/msg01287.html More good MH resources: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/f aq.html http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ Exmh itself is pretty easy to configure, has a gui for most configuration, help menu (in 2.x version) which includes faq and mailing lists subscription. -----------------8<---------------------- Additionally, you asked for was a text mode email client and mentioned mailbox styles, and there are at least several of each. Originally, my mail configuration was setup to work with mutt (my preferred text-mode email client) and exmh (preferred X-windows), however my mutt configuration is no longer. I believe my mutt was disavowed sometime amidst my hamm upgrade due to a long outstanding dependency. The original idea was that mutt and exmh both called on smail's post command Anyways, I just reinstalled mutt, and assigned my exmh inbox to be used, sent and received mail, and looked at my headers, and the Return-Path: field was correctly set, although the From: field apparently needs to be configured a little better because I used the example ~/.muttrc (properly modified) and html manual in /usr/doc, however sending to my isp account I get: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kotsya: David Stern) If anyone knows what causes this, please post list and/or me. Anyways, Mutt has a very advanced feature list, and if you want pgp integration, you'll have to get the non-us version from nonus.debian.org (that's what someone said last night, I haven't tried it). The one thing mutt uses by default that I'm not comfortable with (yet) is vi, but this can be configured to another editor (I chose pico) in ~/.muttrc or in the EDITOR environment variable. There was also an interesting thread re: vi last night. I intend to learn vi, ultimately. -- David Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
