On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 21:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 11:53 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Martin Marques wrote: > >>> edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>> Dear All, > >>>> > >>>> Is there a tool of mail program is similar with pine for FC6 ? > >>> Yes, pine. > >> Yes, pine has one of the most bizarre user interfaces known to man and > >> you aren't going to find anything similar in that respect. Mutt is a > >> little more sensible, but does anyone still use a character based mailer > >> regularly these days? Even if you have a limited bandwidth connection, > >> imap to a local GUI mailer is a lot nicer. > > > That depends how you receive your mail. Since a linux machine contains > > its own smtp server there should no meed for the mailer to do imap. > > Not everyone has a public IP address with suitable DNS handling for > every machine where they might want to read their email. > > > Your > > machine can be directly accessible. And mutt is a mailer that handle > > threaded - sorted mail messages properly where programs like evolution > > can't. > > What do you mean by 'properly'? This works for me: > http://www.novell.com/documentation/evolution24/index.html?page=/documentation/evolution24/evolution24/data/usage-mail-getnsend-read.html, > although I've been using thunderbird more lately, which also does > threads but is a little slower to switch back and forth between > threaded/unthreaded views and I usually view sorted by timestamp and > switch to threaded only when I've forgotten the earlier part of the > conversation. > > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > -- ======================================================================= Hello. Just walk along and try NOT to think about your INTESTINES being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
