On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:23:30AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:26:35PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Michelle Murrain thought:
> >
> > The one minor snag is that at the same time as I did this change, I
> > decided it would be a great time to change from POP to IMAP, since
> > both of the servers I get my mail on (my home server and work) can do
> > IMAP. Problem is, Netscape/Mozilla is the only client that does IMAP
> > on Linux that I can find (others?).
>
> MUTT!!!!!
>
> Sorry, I mean
>
> mutt.
Er, yep. And fetchmail can retrieve mail from IMAP servers, then
procmail can sort it into folders. Then you can use any MUA you like.
> But really the first line expresses my appreciation much better. :-)
>
> mutt is text based, works with imap or local spools, has mailing list
> features (registered mailing lists get treated differently than ordinary
> email), can thread conversations (very useful for grrltalk and issues!),
> allows you to use your favourite editor for composing (even emacs if
> you're so obsessed^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinclined...), is customisable in millions
> of different ways (I have it set up to check outgoing mails for the word
> "attach" and if found, check to see if I *did* attach the file), Oh, and
> Telsa has a very nice, well documented .muttrc available which is very
> helpful when getting started.
Would you mind sharing how you did that? I forget to attach stuff all
the time and it makes me feel stupid. :-)
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
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All your files have been destroyed (sorry). Paul.
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