Eric Johnson <eri...@mathlab.gruver.net> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > > Mayuresh Kathe said: > > > hi, how do mailx users currently handle mime? > > > > They don't. They install mutt, s-nail or whatever. > > pine/alpine
Alpine is what I normally use. As imap client very nice, also for reading and adding attachments. But the program is huge. And it needs internet connections when it does not need it: when you are editing a mail and the connection is interrupted, it hangs, so that the writing is blocked. nail (heirloom mail) has also its defects. When you write a message and the autentification fails, it may happen that you lose the mail writen: it does not land in dead. letter. BTW, it would be good if the configuration file be called "nailrc" and not "mailrc". The best seems to be mutt, but it has a strange configuration file. It would be nice if metamail works again. Perhaps to have something like an editor to be called with ~e (when EDITOR is set to it) in mail that allow to add attachments and to call another editor for writing the text. For reading IMAP it would be nice to have the possibility to "mount" the remote folder as a local file (no work in FUSE?). Another question is how to send with alternative smtp servers. Rodrigo.
