On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 12:50:05AM +0000, Rodrigo Readi wrote: > The OP wanted a simple solution
The OP just asked how to use '$ mail on the command line'. This is not very specific, which is why I asked exactly what he was trying to do in my first reply. > and the answers are getting too complicated. [...] > But my mail does not go through my server, but through 3 party providers. > And I want to use IMAP for what it is on my Desktops, and IMAP is not POP3. > > I first see the headers, then I decide for what mail I want to read > the text, and then > for that mail what attachements. I can see the emails on the server with any > Desktop computer anywhere. For that is IMAP. That doesn't sound at all like a simple solution to me. When I sit down at my workstation, all of my email is just there. New mail, complete with all attachments, arrived whilst I was away making coffee or whatever, so the download time didn't affect me - it was not done interactively. I can browse and search all email at the speed of my local disk, using _any_ client program with virtually no special configuration of new clients required. Many years ago, when sendmail was the common MTA on unix-like systems, it was reasonable to tell users, "If you're coming from a non-unix background and want it to 'just work' in a hurry, then use one of the desktop clients". This made sense for new users who had been using Netscape Communicator on another platform, and could use exactly the same application on X. Now things have changed, and configuring smtpd for outgoing mail shouldn't be much of a challenge for anyone with basic experience of OpenBSD. Inbound mail is more complicated because, as I explained before, it depends on the ISP and also your expectations of how the system is going to work. But locking new users in to using specific programs from ports in order to give them a quick answer is not a great solution. In the future they'll find themselves saying, "I have to use mail client FOO on OpenBSD, because it's the only one that supports BAR, which I've come to rely on".
