preferred email system

[Paul Robinson]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:20:16PM -0700, Robert Stickney wrote:

> robust sorting system

Mozilla

> some intelligent way to deal with spam

Mozilla

> nice GUI for use in XFree86

Mozilla. I would have said mutt for the above, but the "nice gui" thing 
obviously negates mutt from your considerations, which is a shame.

> shell interface to same email database for remote access 

Nasty. I actually don't use Mozilla so am not sure how it handles mail 
spools. Instead I use mutt which does everything above so far except it 
doesn't have a GUI. Plus it takes some work to get "just right" for your own 
tastes, but for me, it rocks. :-)

> if possible share an address book (and with Palm Vx)

Mutt uses a file called "aliases" in your home directory, the format of 
which is easy enough to script up a parses for to whack it into your Palm. I 
have no idea how Mozzy handles address books.

> a good calendar system (links with Palm Vx - have jPilot installed)

Doesn't the calendar stuff in KDE do that? I don't have a Palm, so never 
considered it, but I'm sure I saw somewhere....

> later it might be nice to add web email as a remote option.

Better off using your ISPs webmail, but then it all comes down to where does 
the MX for your domain point to, how do you collect mail at the moment, how 
would you like to collect it in the future, and so on... the advantage to 
'nix (not just FreeBSD) is you can do anything you want, any way you want. 
Unless it's USB and FireWire voodoo in which case you might not be able to. 
:-)
 
> Any suggestions would be help full.  If anybody has done anything similar it 
> would be nice to know how you did it. 

We *all* have e-mail, and we all have preferences as to how it should be 
done...
 
> PPS. Sent this message to both Chat and Newbies to get different perspectives.

And as cross-posting is stupid, I've only followed up to -chat.

-- 
Paul Robinson