What are people using for MUA's nowadays?

Viktor Lazlo viktorlazlo at telus.net
Mon Sep 22 08:56:15 PDT 2003



On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Marc Ramirez wrote:

>
> At 29 1/2, I feel like an old fart, because I'm still using pine.  I know,
> it's horrible of me.  But it's the first thing I used when I got to
> college and got my first UNIX account.  And I've never really had a reason
> to change.
>
> But after my Mavis Beacon diatribe the other day, I started feeling
> ancient :), and I'm wanting to install some sort of spam filter, which I
> know I'll have trouble integrating with pine.  (It's amazing I haven't
> needed one yet.)
>
> So, what are you young hipsters using to read main and filter spam?

Mutt is probably more popular than pine these days as it includes a lot of
new features, but filtering for any for users of console mail clients is
normally done externally with procmail.

Cheers,

Viktor


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