[Gllug] Mail programs

[Richard Cohen]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 tet at accucard.com wrote:

>
> >I know it's going to be mainly a personal choice thing but I'm not
> >aware of which clients are available and what their strengths and
> >weaknesses are.
>
> While we're on the subject, I'm also looking for a new mail reader.
> I currently use nmh/exmh, which is great, but it's a bit buggy, and
> in particular, it doesn't handle forwarding attachments, which is a
> real pain in the ass. However, I've yet to find anything else that
> meets my requirements, so I stick with it for now. If anyone knows
> of something that:
>
> - lets me edit messages using vi

I'm doing this right now in Pine...

> - read mail both when I'm sitting in X, and when I'm remotely logged in
>   from a text-only terminal

I do this every day in Pine...

> then I'd love to hear about it. those two features are critical and
> non-negotiable. Others that would be nice are:
>
> - the ability to customise headers, preferably with as much flexibility
>   as mh/nmh

Pine is reasonably good at customising headers - not on a message-by-message
basis, but globally.

> - allowing me to use procmail to filter incoming mail

I read my mail with IMAP (and directly out of my home directory) using Pine
as my MUA.  procmail filters my mail as it arrives - I just tell Pine where
to look for it.

> - (optionally) forwards attachments

Do you mean forwards *just* attachments, or will forward mails with or
without the attachments they came with?  Either way, Pine will do it pretty
easily.

> - handles bulk forwarding well

Again, I'm not sure what you mean by this, but it's pretty easy in Pine to
(for example) select all mails from a certain person and forward them as a
single large MIME digest, or with all the mails in the body of a single text
mail.

> but I could probably get by without them if I had to. Of the ones I've
> looked at, I think Balsa has a lot of potential, but it fails on my
> first criteria, so I didn't even bother looking for the other features.

Can you tell I like Pine? :-)

> Tet

Cheers
Richard



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