Hi Alex!
I agree with you that the traditional Unix way of setting up e-mail is
a bit more challenging than the Netscape/OE/Eudora/... way. It sure
required a whole lot of work for me as well when I tried to get
everything up and running 'bout a year ago.
But, as often is the case, the rewards are proportional to the work
you put into this. A well working mutt-fetchmail-procmail-sendmail
system beats everything I've ever tried. It's well worth the work, IMHO.
I think you're wrong in your suggestion that mutt is incomplete; this
is a mail program designed to work within a Unix mail system, and as
such doesn't need/want to be an do-it-all solution. Saying that mutt
is incomplete is like saying Netscape is incomplete since it doesn't
boot your hardware and handles running all other software on your
system (although with Mozilla this seem to be what the developers are
aiming at).
Now, I really don't think the work to set up mutt and all the rest is
totally overwhelming nor impossible. Why not give it one more try?
mutt - works practically out-of-the-box, and this is the friendliest
mailing list in existance.
fetchmail - have you tried fetchmailconf? It allows you to graphically
do all the settings required, not much harder than Netscape.
procmail - not much work is need to set up the things you want to get
done. I could mail you my .procmailrc (very, very simple) if you want
it.
sendmail - have you tried postfix? It also practically works
out-of-the-box.
I don't know on what system you're running, but this link might give
you some overview of all this:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cmail.html
Hope you stay with us!
Jesper
* On Sunday, August 20, Alex Farber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to thank the people at this mailing list for their help.
> However I am switching back to netscape for reading my mails and news.
>
> I didn't like that netscape is so slow, and that I can't use my
> favourite
> editor (Vim) when composing messages. So I tried switching to slrn and
> mutt, which many people recommend. But now, after 5 days reading the
> docs about fetchmail+procmail+mutt, I see that it is easier for me to
> enter the POP and NNTP settings into netscape, than setting 4 different
> programs to run. I just click on the "Get new messages" and everything
> will be downloaded and even separated into different mailboxes for me.
>
> Maybe it says how clueless I am, maybe - that mutt is not complete. It's
> not a flame, just wanted to let you know about some different opinion.
>
> Regards
> Alex
>
--
Jesper Holmberg "But how can one be warm alone?"
