On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:01:19 +0100 Miroslav Skoric <sko...@uns.ac.rs> wrote:
> And when bootable, what GUI might be workable at best (Mate, > Xfce, ...)? As I said, for nothing much more than occasional > Thunderbird, or any other compatible mail client that can use the > CLI-based ham email server (FBB), to process pop3/smtp mails by using > copy/paste by mouse click etc. > > At this stage (Debian 8) I do that in MATE + Thunderbird. It's slow > but works. What is not known is whether that would work in Debian 9. Ah. Consider a non-GUI mail user agent (MUA). Pine and elm are old standards. heirloom-mailx is a very simple program. The most modern is mutt. The main thing these will not do is handle HTML mail. Of those, I would recommend mutt. It uses curses, so you get something that acts something like a GUI. It is highly flexible and configurable. Do, however, expect a learning curve. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
