[geeks] Favorite mailer

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I'm looking for a new mailer.  I'd like to hear options on both text
> (pine vs mutt)

Don't go there.  It's too soon for another jihad :)

But, since you asked: I prefer pine over mutt based on the user interface
alone.  In some ways mutt seems like a couple steps backwards from pine &
other text-based mailers.

> and graphical (something similar to eudora which I use now).  Does
> anybody use X11 based mailers?

Typically not.  Most of them

1) Do Wierd Things to my mailbox.  I want my INBOX left in /var/mail (or
   ~/Maildir, or whatever you use), goddammit!
2) Don't do PGP
3) Don't do IMAP worth a crap

Some of them don't even to *any* of the above!

Evolution (part of the GNOME desktop evnironment) it working out to be
pretty slick, but may not be an option for you if you don't have/aren't
willing to have GNOME installed on your machine.

> I do most of my work in xterms so even if its text I don't mind
> because I can cut and paste urls into browsers,etc.

Ditto :)

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Phil Brutsche				    pbrutsch at tux.creighton.edu

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