[Sussex] Mail client suggestions

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Paul

Paul Howard wrote:
> Has anyone got any suggestions for a decent mail client I can use?

How about Mutt?  (www.mutt.org) Learning curve is almost vertical but
once you crack it, its an excellent, fast, stable client.  Command line
so you need to hook it up to other bits and pieces to view stuff like
HTML emails, graphics, etc.  Also it (stubbornly) doesn't support direct
SMTP - local delivery only - sticks to the definition of an MUA almost
religiously - so you'll need a simple mail server set up on your machine
(which most distros will do for you).

On the plus side, once you've got your head around the configuration
files, Mutt has filtering and configurability options that leave all
other clients in the shade.  It is enormously powerful and useful if you
have large volumes of mail that you need to filters into seperate
folders, for example.  Also being command line means that you can run it
over an SSH connection very easily without the overhead of X tunnelling.
 Oh, it talks IMAP natively too as well as POP3.

Don't know if it will suit you or not but it _definitely_  warrants
consideration.

Cheers
--
Ronan

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