On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:13:06PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:47:17AM -0400, Matthew P Szudzik wrote: > | My understanding is that Mail (equivalently mail or mailx) is the only > | email client that is in the OpenBSD default install. But Mail does not > | handle MIME-encoded messages, so I was wondering what most people use to > | read and send them. > | > | Do you download metamail and/or mpack from ports? > | Do you use a different email client like nail, nmh, or pine? > > Check out mutt, it's in packages and it's very nice. I don't know nail > or nmh, but it doesn't have the downsides of pine so I'd definitely > prefer mutt over pine. > > Yes, I am a mutt user, so I'm biased. Please take that into > consideration ;) You should probably try out a couple of different > solutions and settle with what you like best.
Speaking from all sides here's my layout of the MIME capable readers: - Mutt Excellent IMAP/PGP support, which is why I currently use it. - Gnus Configurable like nothing I have ever seen before, also excellent PGP and IMAP support, but YMMV since it's Emacs. - NMH Great little client if you work at a command line a lot, since each piece is a unique program, making it easy to intersperse commands and mail commands. MIME support is good, but can be clumsy if you don't understand how it does it (kind of like the commands interface). - Sylpheed Nice GUI, seems small enough, but, it's a GUI, so . . . yeah. :-) Good IMAP support. - Thunderbird Nice for the masses, does things that it does fairly well, but feels larger than necessary. PGP support is good through and extension. - Mailx This *is* a good program, but handling MIME is a bit strange IIRC. -- Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.aaronhsu.com> XMPP/Jabber/GTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ: 153114301 AIM/Yahoo: NoorahAbeer | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
