preferred email system

[Gray, David W]

I use mutt in a similar setup. It's handling of IMAP is, well, painful. It
really
does not do folders well, at all. I use squirrelmail whenever I want to move
stuff 
around, or maybe Mozilla (only issue with Mozilla is its such a hog... I'd
really 
like to see them reduce it's footprint.) (In all fairness to Mozilla, I run
it a lot 
on my 166MHz, 64Mb machine, along with KDE 2.2, and apache, and a TV card...
Try *that*
with any modern version of Windows).


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>Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 19:35:06 +0930
>From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
>Subject: Re: preferred email system
>To: Paul Robinson <paul at iconoplex.co.uk>,	Robert Stickney
	<stickney at ece.arizona.edu>
>Cc: freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
>Message-ID: <200305291935.06164.doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
>Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"

On Thu, 29 May 2003 19:19, Paul Robinson wrote:
> 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. :-)

Run an IMAP server and use Mozilla/Mutt/SquirrelMail/whatever to access it.

> > 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.

You can share Mozilla address books to PalmOS I believe.

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